The Twitter account for James Kelman's official website, https://nitter.gq/t.co/sIeNQPINfd
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Here is an open statement by AStA and Networkaq. The conference is taking place in Hamburg and on those dates! Come and join us! asta-uhh.de/1-aktuelles/stat…
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30.04.21
A special date for Scottish literature - the official release of 'passing through' by Tom Leonard.
Thank you to the Tom Leonard Literary Estate & family for all of their support.
You can order your copy and read more about Tom Leonard here: thecommonbreath.com/passingt…
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Even if TCB runs for another decade, I doubt we'll ever have a better announcement than this one.
30.04.21
It is our great privilege to publish 'passing through', a collection of previously uncollected or unpublished poetry and prose by Tom Leonard :
thecommonbreath.com/onlinesh…
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BLOG UPDATE 27.01.21
James Kelman has added the essay 'A talk relating to the artist Samuel Beckett' to his online blog this morning.
This can be accessed via clicking the link below:
jameskelman.net/bloghomepage…
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Music and "the Man".
Discussed in the new essay 'Lubbock, Leningrad and Lafayette' by @JamesKelmanNet.
Read it here: jameskelman.net/bloghomepage…
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'Old Francis' by James Kelman is one of my favourite short stories (as detailed here: thecommonbreath.com/blogessa…), and you can read the play / drama script version of this on James Kelman's website. I love reading how prose can be re-imagined in drama form:
jameskelman.net/scripts/
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So, MAJOR LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENT!
The first novel on The Common Breath imprint will be published on 1st October 2020!
- 'Waiting for Nothing' by Tom Kromer
The re-publication of an incredible forgotten novel from 1930's America.
I'm so excited for this book to be read. Brian
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Today at 5pm from the Bangalore Literature Festival:
youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-ho9YB…
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"The crucial thing for me was recognising kindred artists involved in identical, and related, issues, struggling with language as an effect of linguistic and cultural imperialism."
- Interview with James Kelman on the novel 'How Late it Was, How Late':
thecommonbreath.com/jk.html
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James Kelman's blog page was updated this morning with:
(a) A reading list document that was produced for U.S students
(b) A short statement regarding narrative tradition
You can read both here:
jameskelman.net/bloghomepage…
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The previously unpublished recording of an interview has been added to the audio section.
This took place in 2015 between James Kelman and Brian Beadie, and a further explanatory note from Erik Sandberg is attached.
You can listen to the piece here: jameskelman.net/audio/
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"I staggered into the room and collapsed onto the bed a raving maniac. Somehow I must have undressed and crawled under the blankets, as the next thing I knew, the door had opened and the landlady’s cleaner was staring down at me."
Read the full extract:
jameskelman.net/work/an-old-…
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"I was already involved in my own work in my own way. The crucial thing for me was recognising kindred artists involved in identical, and related, issues, struggling with language as an effect of linguistic and cultural imperialism."
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Click here: thecommonbreath.com/intervie…
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This really is going to be a landmark for people who love Kelman's work.
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News!
James Kelman now has an official blog section on the site, which he will be updating with new work.
Currently on there are two chapters from his current book-in-progress as well as a short essay from last month.
Keep yer eyes peeled...
jameskelman.net/bloghomepage…
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You can read the short story "Out There" by @JamesKelmanNet in full on Lithub:
lithub.com/out-there/
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James Kelman at Home (1977) by Alasdair Gray, City Recorder series @GlasgowMuseums
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"…a passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book."
Read the full article celebrating 25 years since the publication of James Kelman's Booker-winning 'How Late It Was, How Late' right here:
thecommonbreath.com/essays1.…
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'FECHT AND SLOGED'
- An extract from "In the Parish of Forms & Apparitions: Chan eil dad nas Albannaich na an Uilebheist Loch Nis"
Posted online by James Kelman, 26/04/20:
jameskelman.net/blog2
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My stories generally begin from one human being. It might be said that the creation of this one human being is the story. Once the human being is created there is no second story.
-An interview in celebration of 25 years since 'How Late It Was, How Late'
thecommonbreath.com/intervie…
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"It wasn’t so much a transcription of the speaking-voice as to do with how you framed the actual unit, the unit of breath, just trying for local rhythms of speech… if you just use the so-called correct grammar you can’t convey that meaning."
Read on...
thecommonbreath.com/essays1.…
