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ARTICLES Examples of published writing by Mark Fisher. All writing © Mark Fisher.
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January 2008 The Scotsman When it comes to saving planet, we fret about petrochemical plants, long-haul flights and supermarkets. Few of us think about the arts.
February 2007 The Guardian Pity John Moffat. As chief engineer at the National Theatre, in London, he's the one who has to open the electricity bill.
July 2006 Scotland on Sunday Why Ireland beats Scotland in theatre promotion Next month on the Edinburgh Fringe you'll be able to see a raft of impressive theatre companies from the Republic of Ireland.
November 2005 Scotland on Sunday Who is the patron saint of cultural cliché?
When you look back across the shows Chris Addison has brought to the Edinburgh Fringe over the past decade it’s hard to imagine there might be a unifying idea.
August 2006 The Guardian This is what it's like at the Edinburgh festival. One minute you're getting all intense over My Name is Rachel Corrie, the next minute, you're out on the town with Kylie Minogue.
January 2006 The Guardian Robert Lepage (Ghost-written) Every time Hans Christian Andersen had a wank, he would put a mark in his diary.
February 2005 Scotland on Sunday He is on first-name terms with Angelina, Mila and Nicole, but Iain Glen is the most reluctant of stars.
April 2004 The Independent on Sunday Brian Cox is a ball. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's just rolled his way to my table.
October 2004 The Observer Irvine Welsh is not the man you expect. As he tucks into a lunchtime baked potato looking nothing if not cuddly in his lumberjack shirt . . .
7 March 2008 The Herald Sky Bar and Restaurant, Edinburgh I've come to the Sky Bar and Restaurant straight from teaching a class of journalism students about the fine art of reviewing. Today's theme was the critic as egotist and our study aid, inevitably, was Michael Winner.
21 February 2008 The Herald By rights, some bars should exist only in your imagination.
14 February 2008 The Herald Monteiths, Edinburgh Gentlemen, take note! If you plan to wine and dine your young lady on Valentine's Day, don't do as I did in the run up to my recent wedding anniversary.
December 2005 The Herald The Seafood Restaurant, St Andrews Many years ago on a scorching day in June I joined 1000-odd cyclists in the annual Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride. After 67 miles, the pint I had on arrival felt like the most deserving I'd ever drunk.
December 2005 The Herald Black Bo's, Edinburgh Culinary comedy. There's simply not enough of it. When was the last time you laughed at your lettuce or chortled over your chopsticks?
January 2006 Scotland on Sunday Simon Bent on Parkinson's Disease Simon Bent was in the pub when the truth first hit him.
April 2005 Scotland on Sunday Tom McGrath on recovering from a stroke We're in the Railway Tavern in Ladybank, Fife, and Tom McGrath is singing to me over our burger and chips.
June 2005 Scotland on Sunday David Bryant on being HIV positive Over the coming weeks you're going to hear a lot of remarkable things about NVA's The Storr. But the most remarkable of all is the presence of David Bryant.
October 2007 Scotland on Sunday Literary critics keep a special dictionary for James Kelman. It is a book full of the most sober words. The Glasgow author is "challenging", "meticulous" and "powerful", they like to say.
February 2007 Scotland on Sunday Imagine the world's waters have risen, the population has taken to living in slum-like boat cities and humanity is in crisis.
June 2006 Scotland on Sunday It's getting to the end of our interview and Marti Leimbach has a moment of panic. "I'm wondering if we should talk about the novel a little," she says.
April 2006 Scotland on Sunday Interviewing Denise Mina is a hoot. The conversation will be going swimmingly when suddenly she'll come to a halt.
May 2005 Scotland on Sunday Tim Albery swings into the Scottish Opera canteen, orders a baked potato and banters in German with a couple of soloists.
February 2005 Scotland on Sunday As far as Michael Nyman was concerned it was going to be just another collaboration.
November 2004 Scotland on Sunday James Maley survivor of the Spanish Civil War
May 2004 Scotland on Sunday Saira Shah documentary filmmaker
December 2005 Scotland on Sunday Let's suppose you founded a religion. Let's say it was about 2,000 years ago. Let's imagine that over the centuries you enshrined your most sacred beliefs in song.
January 2006 Scotland on Sunday Ken Stott slumps into his seat in the Oxford Bar. It's been a tough day for Inspector Rebus, what with the mysterious murders, the troublesome girlfriends and the office politics.
Rehearsals for Children of the Sea, Sri Lanka, June 2005 16 January The List If Disney had designed the streets outside Duncan Robertson's studio, you'd say it was too Mickey Mouse to be true.
July 2005 Scotland on Sunday The stage is behind a cobra's nest and beneath four towering coconut trees, their fruit dangling perilously overhead.
June 2005 Scotland on Sunday Copenhagen/Hans Christian Andersen
October 2005 Scotland on Sunday Las Vegas
January 2003 The List The temperature edges up a notch and the drainpipes start to thaw, sending ice cascading to the pavement like a jackpot in one of the city’s many casinos.
Claire Midwood is crouched in the middle of the gallery with a lump of mud at her knees.
July 2006 The Guardian Think of early-20th-century pioneers and you imagine Shackleton tackling the Antarctic. But in the rarefied world of art, a pioneer counts as anyone who took a punt on the unsung Van Gogh.
April 2006 The Guardian The last place you would expect to find the work of proto-punk rocker Patti Smith is behind the colonnades of William B Whitie's baroque Mitchell Library.
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