Bookclub
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<p>Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels</p>
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Irvine Welsh
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[…] It brought me out momentarily from the grim reality of life that your characters were facing. However, it also felt authentic as well. When you were writing it, did you... interject that humour as you went along or did you do some of it at a later editing stage to give more of an ebb and flow in the book? A lot of it was in the moment because a lot of Scottish humour is dark humour basically and it is that gallows humour, it's kind of staring in the face of the abyss and having a laugh about it because you can't really do anything else. except find it absolutely ridiculous. But I think in terms of a book, humor is not about finding something funny. […]
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