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Google News: Fear and Loathing: A Non-Savage Journey to the City of Lost Wages
[The Skinny] - As the Scottish writer William McIlvanney once said, it's just a word: money. The city also dreams of money that it doesn't yet have. It's so easy to lose years of savings in one moment because, as many people told me, the house always wins.
Guardian: Edinburgh book festival chief wants authors, not celebrities
[The Guardian (blog)] - He points to that first book festival 29 years ago as "pretty amazing" - Raymond Briggs, William McIlvanney, Sorley MacLean and Magnus Magnusson took part. "By god it was a brilliant line up." Internationalism, via the Word Alliance, and innovation
Martin Hannan: It's time Scottish artists spoke out
www.scotsman.com
[Scotsman] - I would love William McIlvanney or Andrew O'Hagan to move to the fore and speak their mind. Most of all, I would like our poets to articulate the deepest feelings within Scots at this time. And if in doing so they evince dark foreboding then so be it
The Dark Remains, by William MacIlvaney and Ian Rankin ...
www.washingtonpost.com
Sep 22, — The Dark Remains” captures perfectly the voice of the late William McIlvanney, master of Tartan Noir. › books ›
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