Anahit Behrooz

1 week ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

It’s a bit of a sexy time at Lighthouse Bookshop this coming month: author and literary translator Arielle Burgdorf launches their queer experimental novel Jeanne (5 Jun), Anastasiia Fedorova launches Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire (17 Jun), and Melissa Febos is in conversation with Dina Nayeri about her new book exploring a year of celibacy The Dry Season (26 Jun).

1 week ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

New electronic dance music festival Days Festival had their inaugural issue in September of last year, and they're already back for a gorgeous spring/summer edition taking place at The Pitt in Granton on 31 May.

2 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

Spring always means the reopening of gorgeous Edinburgh-adjacent sculpture park Jupiter Artland and the launch of their summer exhibition programme. This year they're welcoming artist Jonathan Baldock, whose new exhibition WYRD is a veritable zoo of hybrid animals formed from textile and clay, drawing on animals who exhibit same-sex sexual impulses – penguins, giraffes, crabs and elephants – who mutate into mythic harpies, mermaids and phoenixes.

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

“An object of rage” – this is how Catherine Lacey described her latest work, fiction-memoir hybrid The Möbius Book, on first delivering it to her editors. Or she did, until her editors gently pointed out that an object of rage is not necessarily a book. She laughs ruefully, wincing when I ask when in the editing process the anger was excised. “There’s still definitely some in there, right?” she says. “The rage is doing a lot of things.

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

Arkbound Promoted Content Scotland’s literary culture is second to none: Edinburgh is a UNESCO City of Literature, book festivals take over the country throughout the year, and Rabbie Burns’ face seems to be everywhere. But maybe the most welcome part of Scotland’s book culture is the network of support that is offered to emerging and local writers, with workshops, grassroots festivals and mentorship schemes available to help new writers navigate the complex landscape.