Second Lives: Tales from Two Cities

by Rodge Glass (Editor), Jane Bernstein (Editor), Will Self (Contributor)

What is a city? Through essays, poems, memoir, photographs and fiction, an array of today s leading writers, thinkers and artists join together to give their perspective. Focussing on the two former industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Pittsburgh, Second Lives is a collection of views, real and imagined, on what makes up a city in the 21st century, and how cities might be reborn. In order to get to know any place, you need to spend time in its neighbourhoods, each of which has its own character and history. You need to talk to its people. Listen to their stories. And maybe tell them yours.

340 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 2012

About the author

Rodge Glass is the author of the novels No Fireworks (Faber, 2005) and Hope for Newborns (Faber, 2008), as well as Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury, 2008), which received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. Recently, he was co-author of the graphic novel Dougie’s War: A Soldier’s Story (Freight, 2010), which was nominated for several awards. He is currently a Programme Leader in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, and was Associate Editor at Freight Books. His novel, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, was published in April 2012 by the multi-award winning Tindal Street Press, then as a paperback by Serpent’s Tail, and it appeared as Voglio la testa di Ryan Giggs in April 2013 (66thand2nd, Roma). His latest book, LoveSexTravelMusik, was published by Freight Books in April 2013 and was nominated for the International Frank O’Connor Award. His fiction has been published in Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Danish and Italian.
(from http://rodgeglass.com/ )