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Momentum And Memory: PUSH Magazine – Poetry At The Gates

Kit Caless sits down with Joe England, editor of PUSH — a literary magazine with a dedicated, football-based readership — to discuss why the contributions lean toward the brutal, selling at the gates and always thinking forward
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Doors Of Appropriation: Teju Cole Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to one of contemporary literature's most impressive polymaths - novelist, non-fiction writer, photographer, cultural commentator and art historian Teju Cole - about the pros and cons of cultural appropriation, being a writer in the social media age and the otherworldliness of birds. (Photograph by Teju Cole)
Baker's Dozen

Lust For Music: Irvine Welsh’s Favourite Albums

With Filth recently released on DVD and a new novel due later this year, the Edinburgh author places a long-distance call from Miami to give Joe Clay the rundown of his top albums
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State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting author talks Filth, Porno, post-UK politics, and how he should have cut Margaret Thatcher in on his royalties in an interview at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Black Sky Thinking

Sound And Fury: The Trouble With The Man Booker Prize

Joe Kennedy is suspicious about the literary prize's recent embrace of left field and independent fiction

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Pin Ups: A David Bowie Baker’s Dozen Compilation

In the wake of the great man's passing, we bring together all the times his albums have been featured in our favourite 13 LPs feature, including contributions from Paul Weller, Gary Numan, Brett Anderson and more

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