Christopher O'Riley just finished reading Irvine Welsh’s latest, SKAGBOYS, an epic prequel to TRAINSPOTTING, a lush, insightful, hilarious ricercare of intermingled chapter-voices following Everybody’s Favourite Heroin Addicts, Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, the violence-addicted Francis Begbie and a few others from the endless cast of Maggie’s Millions in the early 80’s. i’ve read everything published by Irvine …
just finished reading (the last of a 2000+pp Lucius Shepard binge, even though his latest compilation THE DRAGON GRIAULE, just arrived today, as well as a penny paperback of his first novel, GREEN EYES) the incredible 14-story collection, THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. man has quite the imagination. trust me. — with Lucius Shepard.
Just finished reading Lucius Shepard’s incredible short story collection, Eternity and Other stories, which, notwithstanding the fact that I’d already read some of them (Only Partly Here, Hands Up, Who Wants to Die, and Jailwise have appeared in other collections; R&R served as the opening chapter of his brilliant Life During Wartime) I found myself …