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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 -
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Tell 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 -
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Keep 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
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"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 -
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The State of Books to Come
What's happening in the literary scene in 2010? Let's have a look... Read more »| 29 Dec 2009 -
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A 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 -
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Please Praise Gray's Plays...
The Skinny is helping to launch an Alasdair Gray Book - want to come? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Bloody Women: Read the first chapter here
"Forty minutes later I straddled Johnny in the passenger seat of his Golf with no pants on." Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Cargo Publishing: A Young Upstart
Mark Buckland set up Cargo Publishing this August with the goal of "putting a firework up the arse of Scottish literature". No small feat for a 22 year old. How did he do it? Read on. Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
FeaturesGutter Press
The newly launched Gutter magazine already looks like being a promising step for Scottish writing as a whole. Here's why. Read more »| 28 Sep 2009 -
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Christopher Brookmyre: Creating Pandaemonium
A chat with Christopher Brookmyre about his new book, Pandaemonium, demons, quantum physics, and the nature of reality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Ewan Morrison Speaks.
Four books in five years is an impressive standard for any successful author. Ewan Morrison seems to have made up for lost time in writing fiction. Starting with a collection of short stories followed by two novels, Ewan’s most recent release – Ménage – set in the Young British Artist scene of 90s London sees three characters engage in an enveloping ménage a trois. In an undisturbed university room in the heart of Glasgow, Ewan talks about the book and the engine that runs it. Read more »| 17 Aug 2009