3:AM Cult Hero: James T. Farrell
By Robert O’Connor. Studs Terkel was born Louis. He got the name “Studs” after enthusiastically reading the Studs Lonigan trilogy of books (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan and Judgment Day), and it stuck when he published his book Giants of Jazz and the publisher told him “Studs Terkel is a great name […]
Unbound
Alongside Summerhall’s These Silences literary symposium and Word Power’s Book Fringe, Unbound promises some of the finest literary events in Edinburgh this month. It’s on every night from the 14th to the 29th August in the magnificent Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events are free and […]