Irvine Welsh: “I have such a good time writing that I no longer have such an urge to go out and party”

2023-12-05 05:27:43
The fifth time, it seems, is the charm and Irvine Welsh says goodbye (1958), or so it seems, to the calamitous protagonists of ‘Trainspotting’ with ‘Marked for Death’ (Anagrama), a new twist to that roller coaster of violence, addictions, wild sex and filthy junkies that revolutionized popular culture three decades ago. So goodbye, or who knows if we’ll see you again, to Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie and Spud, an endearing and fearsome trash gang that, now established in adulthood, continues to sow panic (and something else) in an Edinburgh swallowed up by The tourism. —So, that’s it? It’s over? Is this the promised ‘grand finale’? —I think so, but you can never really be sure what… See More
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