It’s not really about debate and discussion, discourse, community anymore,” the Scottish writer warned at London's Voiced: ...

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The 73 color photos here seem artless: the working-class English subjects look like slobs; the house is a mess and overrun with rowdy kids. Yet even stuffy readers will have a great time at this ...

This week, Irvine Welsh spoke about his latest addition to the Trainspotting canon on two podcasts while Kit de Waal revisited her 2016 novel. When asked why he keeps returning to the characters of ...

Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...

Today in books and publishing: An excerpt from Michael Chabon's latest novel; pricey e-books hit the top of the charts; the myth of Gen-Y illiteracy; Irvine Welsh accuses the Man Booker Prize of ...

Irvine Welsh was born in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. When *Trainspotting* was published in 1993 Irvine Welsh shot to fame. Since Danny Boyle's film adaptation of *Trainspotting* was released in ...

A pit bull with a head the size of a medicine ball lazily guards the open door to the Third Street Gym, the new Dogpatch fitness center specializing in boxing and self-defense. On a recent weekday ...

For the collected edition, Dark Horse Comics wrangled an introduction from Irvine Welsh, the author of the acclaimed novel Trainspotting which, like Fight Club, is a counterculture touchstone and ...

This piece originally appeared on Substance.com. It’s 1 am, we’ve been kicked out of the Jesus and Mary Chain show and Irving Place is choked with gawkers and drunks, scalpers and psychos and other ...