Authors@Google: Irvine Welsh

The Authors@Google program was thrilled to welcome Irvine Welsh to Google's New York office to discuss his new book, "Crime". From The Guardian: "Welsh is a brave writer, which means he tries everything, and sometimes his editors let him get away with one metaphor too many. But this is still a great, redemptive book. It leaves you wanting more, much more. It leaves you wondering how many other writers could intertwine, in the closing chapters, a thoughtful dissection of the organic intelligence of pedophilia rings with an exposition of the thoughts of chairman Wallace Mercer in the urinals of Dundee's Dens Park on the infamous 1986 day when Hearts threw away cup victory. What am I saying, many other writers? There's only one and you should be reading him again." This event took place on September 9, 2008.