# All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 - Hardcover

by **James Kelman** (Author)

**Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.**

From his first publication (a short story collection _An Old Pub Near the Angel_ on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (_God's Teeth and other Phenomena_) and work with Noam Chomsky (_Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime_\--both published on a slightly larger American press), _All We Have Is the Story_ chronicles the life and work--to date--of "Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period." (_The Times_)

Drawing  
deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political,  
philosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the  
complexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice  
and grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and  
empathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends  
with the story.

"One of the things the establishment always does  
is isolate voices of dissent and make them specific--unique if possible.  
It's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in prose  
and him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her there,  
and that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these other  
writers in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribean--suddenly  
there's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something  
dangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relate  
to and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's a  
movement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; you  
can contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say 'You're on  
your own, you're a phenomenon.' I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just a  
part of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while." --James  
Kelman from a 1993 interview

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** April 23, 2024

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