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My Guilty Pleasure

Sloane Crosley Finds The Fun In 'Filth'

by Sloane Crosley

Crosley says the novel by Irvine Welsh — also the author of Trainspotting — aces every category of "dirty" we have. Reading it, she explains, is like watching "a rusty car careen into a garbage dump of filthy phonetics and explode into a strangely beautiful ball of flames."

Filth by Irvine Welsh

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