David Henry Sterry: Irvine Welsh on Elitism, Writing, Drugs and Scottish Football (via http://kindle-2-ereader.com)

I first met Irvine Welsh at the Edinburgh Book Festival. He was already a star, and my first memoir had just come out. I was a huge fan of Trainspotting, I think it’s a brilliant, radical, hysterical, terrifying and subversive. As someone who always…