Damien Hirst: Jumping the Shark

It’s not easy to blend into the background at an exhibition of minimalist art, but Damien Hirst is somehow succeeding. On a rainy night back in January, a fashionable throng circulates through…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3555 words)

Dinner With Daniel: Michael Keaton

What if you mix the mayonnaise in the can, with the tuna fish? Or — hold it! Chuck! I got it! Take live tuna fish, and feed 'em mayonnaise! Oh, this is great. [Speaking into Dictaphone.] Call…
PUBLISHED: July 13, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4711 words)

Irvine Welsh: 'I'm the same kind of writer as I am a drinker. I'm a binger'

Irvine Welsh photographed in Leith, Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian When Irvine Welsh began writing 20 years ago, he hadn't much of a clue how to set about a novel. To get…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2462 words)
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