AnneMar 9
Distracting myself from the news by asking silly questions: Why haven't any of Ali Smith's books been made into movies or series? Also, which costs more to make, a feature film or a tee vee series? #AliSmith #film #FilmProduction #movies #MovieProduction #ArtFilm
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 1

“Spark had just passed on to me an unexpected gift: the gift of the future. I’m beginning to think her books are themselves a kind of fruitfulness.”

—Ali Smith on how Muriel Spark gives us the gift of the future

5/18

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/29/ali-smith-on-muriel-spark-at-100

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #AliSmith

‘Vital, witty, formidably blithe’: Ali Smith on Muriel Spark at 100

Spark shone a light on her times, and ours. In the week of her centenary, her fellow Scottish novelist celebrates a writer who gave us the gift of the future

The Guardian
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJan 29

Take Four Books: Ali Smith
Available on BBC Sounds.

Ali Smith speaks to Take Four Books about her latest novel, GLYPH. Together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its connections to three other literary works.

@bookstodon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002qgmj

#Scottish #literature #AliSmith #womenwriters

Take Four Books - Ali Smith - BBC Sounds

The Scottish writer on her new novel, Glyph, and its connections to three other works.

BBC
Classics ReaderJan 29
Recently finished #WinterNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "God was dead: to begin with." In progress: #It'sAlwaysSomething #GildaRadner (a re-read for me from about 20 yrs ago)
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJan 27

“It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away.”

—GLYPH by Ali Smith: bearing witness to the war in Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/27/glyph-by-ali-smith-review-bearing-witness-to-the-war-in-gaza

#Scottish #literature #Gaza #AliSmith #womenwriters

Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza

This second novel in a sharp duology offers a powerful interrogation of language in the age of mechanical mass destruction

The Guardian
Classics ReaderJan 27
Recently finished #RilkeOnLoveAndOtherDifficulties #JohnJLMood Three out of four stars. Might recommend. Might read again. What caused me to want to read this book was a quote (posted here somewhere, I believe) but as usual, no source given for the quote 😒 In progress: #WinterNovel #AliSmith
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJan 26

Ali Smith: The book that changed me as a teenager

“Liz Lochhead’s Memo for Spring… I found a book so slim it had no spine, just hinges, and was by a woman who was young, Scottish and a poet (at this point in time a rare combination). The poems in it were so good, gripping and clear, written in a kind of Scottish English I knew was close to my own, but I’d never read in any book”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/23/ali-smith-henry-james-had-me-running-down-the-garden-path-shouting-out-loud

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #LizLochhead #AliSmith

Ali Smith: ‘Henry James had me running down the garden path shouting out loud’

The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really matters

The Guardian
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureJan 20

“[Ali] Smith… tells an ambiguous and inimitable tale of what it means to be a woman writer from Scotland, and her creative re-imagining brings the enigmatic Fraser in particular to life once again for a contemporary readership”

Rediscovering the currency of Scottish women’s voices in Ali Smith’s SHIRE – available of Open Access

@litstudies

5/6

https://books.openedition.org/pufc/38895?lang=en

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #OliveFraser #AliSmith

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJan 9

Book launch
Ali Smith: GLYPH
29 Jan, Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh, & online – ticketed

Ghosts don’t exist.
They don’t. End of.
Story, however.
It is haunting.
Everything tells it.

GLYPH is Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful & vital novel yet, a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world. Smith will be in conversation with Jess Orr.

https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ali-smith-glyph

#Scottish #literature #novel #AliSmith

Ali Smith - Glyph at The Portobello Bookshop

Please come and join us for Ali Smith - Glyph on 29th January, at The Portobello Bookshop

The Portobello Bookshop
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureDec 22

“It was the time of year when things could change their nature. […] And already, my true love said taking my arm, we're past the shortest. Light is shaving the darkness off already, a couple of minutes a day. Have you noticed?”

—from 2008: “Do you call that a Christmas present?” – a short story by Ali Smith

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/ali-smith-do-you-call-that-a-christmas-present-1203321.html

#Scottish #literature #shortstory #Christmas #AliSmith

Ali Smith: Do you call that a Christmas present? | The Independent

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a whole month whose daylight ended at roughly half past three. I looked out the window and watched it fall.

The Independent