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I read The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway in a miserable student flat-share, venturing into the orange-walled living room only during the hours my horrible flatmate was out working, where I’d fold in on myself on a chair by the window. It overlooked a messy but green courtyard and other tenements. The signs of life were a comforting connection to the world; women across the way washing dishes or moving around the room; on one occasion kissing extravagantly by the window, dispelling my assumption they were sisters. Alasdair Gray at home in 1983, two years after Lanark was publ...

Favourite childhood read? I loved Joan Aiken’s Arabel’s Raven. There was something wonderful about this great anarchist, in the shape of a raven, coming to disturb the cosy suburban peace. Mortimer was a real punk. I loved his “Nevermore” answer to everything. Arabel was also incredibly cool, mainly because she levelled such clear-eyed, straightforward questions at all these shady, complicated characters. What was the first book to make an impact on you? Lorrie Moore’s Like Life. I first read it in my early 20s while living in Buenos Aires, on the 13th floor of a tower block –...

A frightening situation up here in los angeles. >> 11-year-old paul hartness is trapped, sandwiched between two huge boulders in a crack just a few inches wide. >> oh, poor kid. jesus. >> rescuer tom jones quickly understands that the thing the boy needs to do most to survive keep breathing, is the very thing putting him in even more danger. >> he would slide farther and farther down into that crevice with every breath he took. if the chest is not allowed to expand, obviously he would slowly suffocate. >> he's so close rescuers can talk to him, even touch him, but they can't get him out. they ...