Features
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FestivalsOpening Doors to New Writing
The Year of Open Doors is an upcoming collection of new Scottish writing, edited by Rodge Glass (properly: Dr Rodge Glass, novelist and eminent Gravian) and published by Mark Buckland (properly: Mr M. Buckland esq, head of Cargo Publishing), which will showcase a selection of its stories at Unbound on 22 August. The Skinny met up with the pair to talk books, events and Tory names Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
FestivalsUnbound at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Unbound events happen every night from 15 to 30 August in the Highland Park Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square, part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events bar the closing party are free and unticketed. To get in, simply turn up on the night. We suggest arriving in advance of the start time for a better chance of securing a seat. Events start at 9pm and the bar is open until 1am Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
FestivalsA Night of Sex in the Gutter!
That's Gutter Magazine, so don't get too excited. Or maybe you should, because they've a very unusual event planned... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: Let's Get Wasted
Even those who can’t read know that you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to issue #4 of Bad Press Ltd’s Wasted yo... Read more »| 11 Jun 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: Thunderbolts
In the comic book world there are staple story arcs that just continue to work, whether this may be a cross-over event featuring two favourite characters com... Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: We Could Be Heroes
All good things must come to an end, preferably sooner if they haven’t been good for a while, as May saw American network NBC cancel their once huge He... Read more »| 25 May 2010
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FeaturesComic Book Guy: The L-Team
It’s never a great idea to double-cross a team of crack soldiers each with their own specialist abilities, yet clandestine agencies continue to fall fo... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: Out of the Darkness
This week in the Marvel universe saw the end of an event continually pushed as ‘seven years in the making’. The four-part Siege focused on Norman... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
FeaturesComic Book Guy: Rise of the Graphic Novel
Bob Dylan’s The times they are a changing choruses slowly over the opening credits of The Watchmen, before crime fighters in slightly camp-looking cost... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
FeaturesTell Me a Story...
Stories and tales, poems and ceilidhs, Music and dancing and opera for babies! There's a lot going on at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
FeaturesAll's Right at Aye Write!
The Aye Write! festival is back, with as strong a lineup as ever. Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
FeaturesKeep Carrying Your Poems...
Carry a Poem has been going on since the start of February - and there's plenty more goodies to come. Read more »| 12 Feb 2010 -
Features"I Don't Feel Like a Natural..."
Dan Rhodes might not feel gifted, but now that his new novel is here, it's his readers who'll be the judge... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
FeaturesThe State of Books to Come
What's happening in the literary scene in 2010? Let's have a look... Read more »| 29 Dec 2009 -
FeaturesA Bookish Christmas Gift Guide
Stuck for something to buy a friend for Christmas? Info-packed, entertaining, and easy to get hold of, you can hardly go wrong with a book. Here are some possible choices, all fresh and on the shelves of your local vendor now! Read more »| 02 Dec 2009