Sam Taylor Interview Part 1.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve had an opportunity like this. Sam Taylor came to me with a great idea. We here at the blog would read his three books, The Republic of Trees, The Amnesiac, and the forthcoming The Island at the End of the World, and wrap it all up with an interview. Reading all of an author’s work you really get to see the process rise and fall, especially the growth of a

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Watching Ron Currie Writing

Dennis Haritou: It's been a while since I've read God Is Dead by Ron Currie, that sulphurous book, but I am still washing the brimstone off my hands. After some time has past between yourself and a book, like with people, your experience starts to distill and you only remember the principal points, together with some of the specifics that impacted you, that represent the collision of your mind

Crime by Irvine Welsh

Jason Chambers: Welsh first introduced Scottish detective Ray Lennox in Filth, a darkly comic novel about crooked Edinburgh cop Bruce Robertson's unraveling, In Crime, he relaxes the debauchery (well, a little) and focuses on Lennox - a young detective in a spiral of his own. His career and life in disarray after a case gets disastrously out of control, Ray flies to Florida with his fiance Trudi

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