#williammcilvanney — Public Fediverse posts

“Laidlaw is the melancholy heir to Marlowe. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ – Denise Mina

William McIlvanney discusses and reads from his LAIDLAW trilogy at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with Russel D. McLean

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K879j3KVFvo

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“Laidlaw is the melancholy heir to Marlowe. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ – Denise Mina

William McIlvanney discusses and reads from his LAIDLAW trilogy at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with Russel D. McLean

@bookstodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K879j3KVFvo

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #CrimeFiction #WilliamMcIlvanney

“I am sitting in my reasonably grotty Glasgow bedsit being a writer. I have done my statutory spell of staring at the wall…”

—from William McIlvanney’s “Personal Dispatches”: the sad story behind his poem “Bless this House: A Sampler for Glasgow Bedsits”
(CW: suicide)

9/9

http://www.personaldispatches.com/dispatch021a.html

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Glasgow #bedsitbritain

“I am sitting in my reasonably grotty Glasgow bedsit being a writer. I have done my statutory spell of staring at the wall…”

—from William McIlvanney’s “Personal Dispatches”: the sad story behind his poem “Bless this House: A Sampler for Glasgow Bedsits”
(CW: suicide)

9/9

http://www.personaldispatches.com/dispatch021a.html

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Glasgow #bedsitbritain

Available via BBC Arts: William McIlvanney reads his poem “Bless this House: A Sampler for Glasgow Bedsits”

8/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kgq1n

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Available via BBC Arts: William McIlvanney reads his poem “Bless this House: A Sampler for Glasgow Bedsits”

8/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kgq1n

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #poem #poetry #Glasgow #bedsitBritain

Bless this house, wherever it is,
This house and this and this and this,

Pitched shaky as small nomad tents
Within Victorian permanence,

Where no names stay long, no families meet
In Observatory Road and Clouston Street…

—William McIlvanney, “Bless this house: a sampler for Glasgow bedsits”

7/9

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #poem #poetry #Glasgow #bedsitBritain

Bless this house, wherever it is,
This house and this and this and this,

Pitched shaky as small nomad tents
Within Victorian permanence,

Where no names stay long, no families meet
In Observatory Road and Clouston Street…

—William McIlvanney, “Bless this house: a sampler for Glasgow bedsits”

7/9

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #poem #poetry #Glasgow #bedsitBritain

“Willie’s writing was giving a voice not only to our sense of ourselves but to an entire swathe of working-class experience, past and present”

—from 2016: Hugh McIlvanney introduces a new edition of his brother’s 1975 Whitbread Award-winning novel DOCHERTY

6/9

https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/14944382.hugh-mcilvanney-brother-william-introduction-new-edition-docherty/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #workingclass

“Willie’s writing was giving a voice not only to our sense of ourselves but to an entire swathe of working-class experience, past and present”

—from 2016: Hugh McIlvanney introduces a new edition of his brother’s 1975 Whitbread Award-winning novel DOCHERTY

6/9

https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/14944382.hugh-mcilvanney-brother-william-introduction-new-edition-docherty/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #workingclass

William McIlvanney’s pitch-black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw’s disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction

Ian Rankin remembers the man who created Tartan Noir

5/9

https://crimereads.com/mcilvanney-and-me-ian-rankin-remembers-the-man-who-created-tartan-noir/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

William McIlvanney’s pitch-black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw’s disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction

Ian Rankin remembers the man who created Tartan Noir

5/9

https://crimereads.com/mcilvanney-and-me-ian-rankin-remembers-the-man-who-created-tartan-noir/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

Tartan Noir, or, Hard-Boiled Heidegger

Prof Matt Wickman asks, What does William McIlvanney’s LAIDLAW tell us about the literary tradition within which it is embedded? & how might the novel help us conceptualise the political state of Scotland?

4/9

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/tartan_noir/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir #Heidegger #philosophy #politics

Tartan Noir, or, Hard-Boiled Heidegger

Prof Matt Wickman asks, What does William McIlvanney’s LAIDLAW tell us about the literary tradition within which it is embedded? & how might the novel help us conceptualise the political state of Scotland?

4/9

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/tartan_noir/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir #Heidegger #philosophy #politics

Dr David Goldie discusses LAIDLAW, William McIlvanney’s first detective novel – video from our 2018 Schools Conference

3/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA8S5_rq2M&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZwMUjyxVcQZ8J2K1gp3_Nh

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

Dr David Goldie discusses LAIDLAW, William McIlvanney’s first detective novel – video from our 2018 Schools Conference

3/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA8S5_rq2M&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZwMUjyxVcQZ8J2K1gp3_Nh

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

The real deal: How William McIlvanney transformed Scottish fiction

“If there is a direct line from the so-called ‘Kailyard’ writers of the late 19th century […] to the playful savagery of Irvine Welsh and the still rising body-count of ‘tartan noir’, then at its midpoint stands William McIlvanney.”

Brian Morton profiles William McIlvanney for BBC Arts

2/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1yvXjdWM7lsQNjpNB024ZPC/the-real-deal-how-william-mcilvanney-transformed-scottish-fiction

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

The real deal: How William McIlvanney transformed Scottish fiction

“If there is a direct line from the so-called ‘Kailyard’ writers of the late 19th century […] to the playful savagery of Irvine Welsh and the still rising body-count of ‘tartan noir’, then at its midpoint stands William McIlvanney.”

Brian Morton profiles William McIlvanney for BBC Arts

2/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1yvXjdWM7lsQNjpNB024ZPC/the-real-deal-how-william-mcilvanney-transformed-scottish-fiction

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”

William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November

A 🎂 🧵

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1/9

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity

“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”

William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November

A 🎂 🧵

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1/9

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Docherty
Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1975 e riproposto adesso dalla casa editrice Paginauno, il romanzo di William McIlvanney racconta il conflitto sociale interno ad una famiglia operaia
https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/docherty/
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#Articoli #Libri #CarmineMezzacappa #classeoperaia #DavidLifodi #Docherty #EdizioniPaginauno #Kilmarnock #lavoratorilogistica #MargaretThatcher #minatoriscozzesi #TamDocherty #WilliamMcIlvanney #workingclass