Irvine Welsh: 'Trainspotting was a last chance saloon of creativity

It’s been 30 years since Trainspotting and Irvine Welsh is back in Edinburgh. The city has changed – Leith-sur-Mer is the gentrified seaside haven it was threatening to become in the novel’s sequel, Porno – and the world has too, moving from the street-driven society Welsh captured so memorably, to one unfolding on screens. The Irvine Welsh: ‘Trainspotting was a last chance saloon of creativity’

Irvine Welsh: 'Trainspotting was a last chance saloon of creativity

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Irvine Welsh and the Trainspotting-verse

Trainspotting Author Irvine Welsh on the Art of Storytelling, Science and Popular Culture

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