Alan Black is the author of Kick The Balls and co-author of The Glorious World Cup. He runs The Edinburgh Castle, a pub in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District that tends to attract literary scumbags like myself and the fella below.

Irvine Welsh is the author of Trainspotting and The Acid House. This interview from the archives is from 2006 when he was in San Francisco promoting The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs. This was his first of several appearances on the show.

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