READERS will soon be able to explore the literary archive of crime writer Ian Rankin as it becomes available at the National Library of Scotland this week. Rankin donated his archive to the library in Edinburgh in 2019, describing it as “a pretty complete author’s life, late-20th century-style”. The creator of detective John Rebus the detective also made a substantial donation towards the creation of a post to itemise and catalogue each item. Curator Rosemary Hall, who took up the post, surveyed around 50 boxes of material, dating from 1972 to 2018, and the cataloguing process has resulted in 387 files and manuscripts that people can view at the reading rooms.
Ian Rankin archive ready for readers to explore at national library
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November was another totally locked down month here, with Montreal in the red zone and no socialization allowed. I saw a total of three other human beings, four if you count the time I saw the UPS guy. I read twenty books, and some of them were great. Six re-reads, the rest new, one epic, one non-fiction, three short story collections, and the rest novels.
Cucina Tipica, Andrew Cotto (2018) A romance novel set in Italy, but written by a man with a male protagonist, and also American. In many ways it was very satisfying, but in others it was odd. It strangely kept writing about things I’m quite familiar with but recasting them as elite experiences. For instance, the characters go to Teatro del Sale, but instead of describing the typical experience, he has their experience be mediated and special. The whole point of Teatro del Sale is the democratization of excellent food, making it inexpensive and yet still great, and so this is especially weird. There were some more things like t