Mazin Saleem’s Ode to Alasdair Gray’s Lesser-Known, Equally Deserving Books, Including a Gargantuan Retelling of the History of English Literature & a Bowdlerization of The Divine Comedy
👆 The image illustrating the above article, if anyone doesn’t know it, is one part of a huge mural painted by Alasdair Gray over a number of years on the ceiling of the Òran Mór (formerly Kelvinside Parish Church), an arts & entertainment venue in Glasgow’s West End
INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?
ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.
INTERVIEWER: Just like that?
ALASDAIR GRAY: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it and honed it down to as few words as possible.
From 25 Feb 2021 – the first ever #GrayDay, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Alasdair Gray’s novel LANARK