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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureResponding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketed
Rachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248
Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
Currently available on BBC Sounds.
Recorded at the at the 2026 Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece, LANARK, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by @canongatebooks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx
#Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming
“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
Ninety-Nine Novels: Lanark by Alasdair Gray - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]
“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
