Irvine Welsh: Lighten Up, New Yorkers
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh offers a little advice to New York media:
New York journalists are so serious. I was in New York doing this press conference and one said, 'Is there anything taboo in your books?' and I said, 'Racism. My granddad died at Auschwitz,' and he goes, 'Oh, that's terrible,' and I said, 'Yeah, he fell out of a machine-gun tower.' A sick joke! And they were all... pshpshshspshs [feigns tumbleweed rolling by].
