Alan Black hails from Glasgow. Come ahead!
He co-edited the anthology Public House. He founded the Swearing Festival in 2006 and started the Scottish Cultural and Arts Foundation with Allen Aitken in 1995. He produced the US stage premiere of Trainspotting in 1996.
Alan Black
READINGS
Saturday May 24, 8pm,
Edinburgh Castle Pub
950 Geary St, San Francisco
A Seriously Funny Literary Event
WENDY MERRILL
author of Falling Into Manholes and ALAN BLACK
make light from the dark.
Books
KICK THE BALLS
An Offensive Suburban Odyssey
Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group
pub date June 2008
"A hilarious and utterly irreverent tale of a Scotsman coaching in the junior 'soccer' leagues in the USA. It is the funniest book you will ever read about what the insignificants in the rest of world call 'football'. This tale of cross-cultural chaos also shows you why America,and most of all, Scotland, will never be succesful on the world stage of the beautiful game."
IRVINE WELSH, author of TRAINSPOTTING
"Alan Black makes me laugh in a way no one else can. He's so brutally funny that I worry a little. I think, 'Someone's feelings might be getting hurt here,' but really I don't give a shit because I am laughing so hard. Nothing gets by him, and that's a scary thought."
BETH LISICK, author of HELPING ME HELP MYSELF
"You might think you've heard the usual criticisms of modern parenting and what kids are like because of it. You might occasionally long for the good ole' days when kids played games without a parent there to cheer and console. But not until you read Alan Black's savagely hilarious Kick the Balls does it all come clear - not just how strange a time we live in today, but how strange it was back then, too."
PO BRONSON, author of WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE
