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  1. Huge emergency response scrambled to busy Edinburgh road as police tape off scene

    Police, fire crews and paramedics rushed to Lanark Road near the Water of Leith shortly after 10am on…
    #Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #Google #GreatBritain #Lanark #PoliceScotland #ScottishFireandRescueService
    europesays.com/uk/948394/

  2. East Kilbride residents urged to submit objections to “appropriation” of land site

    The council has con­firmed res­id­ents now have until May 6 to lodge objec­tions to its pro­posal to “appro­pri­ate…
    #Glasgow #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #EastKilbride #GreatBritain #Hamilton #Lanark #Lanarkshire #LanarkshireNews
    europesays.com/uk/904454/

  3. Responding 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

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #Lanark

  4. Responding 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

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #Lanark

  5. Responding 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

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #Lanark

  6. Responding 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

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #Lanark

  7. Responding 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

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #Lanark

  8. 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

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx

    #Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming

  9. 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

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx

    #Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming

  10. 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

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx

    #Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming

  11. 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

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx

    #Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming

  12. 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

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx

    #Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming

  13. “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”

    stephendurkan.wordpress.com/20

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy

  14. “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”

    stephendurkan.wordpress.com/20

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy

  15. “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”

    stephendurkan.wordpress.com/20

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy

  16. “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”

    stephendurkan.wordpress.com/20

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy

  17. “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”

    stephendurkan.wordpress.com/20

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy

  18. “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

    anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess

  19. “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

    anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess

  20. “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

    anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess

  21. “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

    anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess

  22. “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

    anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess

  23. “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

    @bookstodon

    theguardian.com/books/2002/oct

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  24. “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

    @bookstodon

    theguardian.com/books/2002/oct

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  25. “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

    @bookstodon

    theguardian.com/books/2002/oct

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  26. “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

    @bookstodon

    theguardian.com/books/2002/oct

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  27. “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

    @bookstodon

    theguardian.com/books/2002/oct

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  28. Envoi

    Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference

    youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OS

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  29. Envoi

    Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference

    youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OS

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  30. Envoi

    Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference

    youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OS

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  31. Envoi

    Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference

    youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OS

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  32. Envoi

    Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference

    youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OS

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  33. “Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”

    —David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art

    8/8

    waggish.org/2020/alasdair-gray

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration

  34. “Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”

    —David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art

    8/8

    waggish.org/2020/alasdair-gray

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration

  35. “Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”

    —David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art

    8/8

    waggish.org/2020/alasdair-gray

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration

  36. “Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”

    —David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art

    8/8

    waggish.org/2020/alasdair-gray

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration

  37. “Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”

    —David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art

    8/8

    waggish.org/2020/alasdair-gray

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration

  38. (although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)

    7/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  39. (although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)

    7/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  40. (although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)

    7/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  41. (although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)

    7/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  42. (although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)

    7/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  43. Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?

    6/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  44. Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?

    6/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  45. Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?

    6/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  46. Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?

    6/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  47. Which academic will finally dare to write the long-awaited paper “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes”?

    6/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark

  48. The second half of Gray’s slogan draws on the Bible – specifically, the description of the sea-monster Leviathan (Job 41.34):

    “He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.”

    Alasdair Gray’s LANARK: Calvin & Hobbes, avant la lettre

    5/8

    #Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark