I’m off to Edinburgh today, speaking about Ashes and Stones at the Edinburgh International Book Festival tomorrow. I haven’t been on a plane in over six years. I’m nervous, but I’m looking forward to seeing friends and being a part of the exciting line up this year at the festival. This feels like yet another homecoming. 📸 Photo by Nicola Gadler, Unsplash.
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Tomorrow at the #Edinburgh Book festival, a "theatrical response" to David Keenan's v. good 80s indie fan scenester novel This Is Memorial Device, featuring music by Steven of the #Pastels:
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/this-is-memorial-device-by-david-keenan

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And in keeping with its tradition of letting monsters justify their crimes, it's the return of Lord "John" Browne of BP, helpfully telling us "restraint would lead to worse". 🥛
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https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/john-browne-2-13446

Edinburgh Book Festival programme launched yesterday. Haven't got a physical copy yet, but browsing the site I see that David Keenan's This Is Memorial Device is getting a "theatrical exploration".
That was his (well-reviewed and recommended by me) novel about an early 80s indie band on the west coast. If nothing else, the soundtrack should be mint, because Stephen Pastel is playing live.

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/this-is-memorial-device-by-david-keenan
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@fitheach
Yeah, agree 100%. It seems to have taken a generation (or 2? 40 years) for that to fully sink in, though. And I'm not confident that "No one disputes that Franco's regime was responsible for 100s of thousands of deaths", unfortunately.
Heard Javier Cercás talk at #EdBookFest a couple of weeks ago. He said that the "pact of forgetting" after the Transition was more like a pact to not use the past in present day politics and that was partly why the mausoleum's not been touched until now.

Anyone out there read Jeff Noon's Needle in the Groove?
It's a novel that both is about a band and has a very musical, rhythmic feel to its prose.
Was reminded of it when hearing Matthew Herbert talk about his new #novel at #EdBookFest (a good couple of weeks ago now, must get round to posting my notes here).