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  • When I Was That Age Did Art Exist?

    Essays

    by James Kelman ...
    Series Book 7 - Kelman Library
    This is a big bundle of essays and written talks, put down over a long number of years: Kelman hopes some of them make you smile.James Kelman began as a writer of fiction and became a writer of nonfiction in the bargain. He had a short story set for his first ever publication that the printer refused to print on the grounds of "blasphemy." He searched the story for this "blasphemy" but couldn't ... Read more

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  • Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime

    Why Ideas Matter

    Series Book 1 - Kelman Library
    “The world is full of information. What do we do when we get the information, when we have digested the information, what do we do then? Is there a point where ye say, yes, stop, now I shall move on.”This exhilarating collection of essays, interviews, and correspondence—spanning the years 1988 through 2018, and reaching back a decade more—is about the simple concept that ideas matter. They mutate, ... Read more

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  • God's Teeth and Other Phenomena

    by James Kelman ...
    Series Book 2 - Kelman Library
    Jack Proctor, a celebrated older writer and curmudgeon, goes off to residency where he is to be an honored part of teaching and giving public readings, he soon finds the atmosphere of the literary world has changed since his last foray into the public sphere. Unknown to most, unable to work on his own writing, surrounded by a host of odd characters, would-be writers, antagonists, handlers, and ... Read more

    $9.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of the Stone

    Tales, Entreaties, and Incantations

    by James Kelman ...
    Series Book 6 - Kelman Library
    James Kelman has made use of the short form all of his writing life, calling on the different traditions where such stories are central within the culture, beginning and ending in freedom, the freedom to create.This collection of nearly a hundred pieces of very short fiction spans five decades and reveals James Kelman’s mastery of the form. As ever, Kelman insists on his characters telling their ... Read more

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  • All We Have Is the Story

    Selected Interviews 1973–2022

    by James Kelman ...
    Series Book 5 - Kelman Library
    Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and ... Read more

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