{"product_id":"all-we-have-is-the-story-selected-interviews-1973-2022-hardcover","title":"All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Kelman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his first publication (a short story collection \u003ci\u003eAn Old Pub Near the Angel\u003c\/i\u003e on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (\u003ci\u003eGod's Teeth and other Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e) and work with Noam Chomsky (\u003ci\u003eBetween Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime\u003c\/i\u003e--both published on a slightly larger American press), \u003ci\u003eAll We Have Is the Story\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the life and work--to date--of \"Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing\u003cbr\u003e deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political, \u003cbr\u003ephilosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the \u003cbr\u003ecomplexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice \u003cbr\u003eand grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and \u003cbr\u003eempathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends\u003cbr\u003e with the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the things the establishment always does \u003cbr\u003eis isolate voices of dissent and make them specific--unique if possible. \u003cbr\u003eIt's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in prose \u003cbr\u003eand him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her there, \u003cbr\u003eand that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these other\u003cbr\u003e writers in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribean--suddenly \u003cbr\u003ethere's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something \u003cbr\u003edangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relate \u003cbr\u003eto and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's a \u003cbr\u003emovement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; you \u003cbr\u003ecan contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say 'You're on \u003cbr\u003eyour own, you're a phenomenon.' I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just a \u003cbr\u003epart of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while.\" --James \u003cbr\u003eKelman from a 1993 interview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47388517105842,"sku":"9798887440064","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/db6c5b43c3524dfa349ee11e8b9767fb_9b79deff-b8dd-49b2-a922-1ef215128ae9.webp?v=1777922785","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/all-we-have-is-the-story-selected-interviews-1973-2022-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}