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Edi Stark talks to writer, columnist and literary salon host Damian Barr.

Edi Stark talks to writer, columnist and literary salon host Damian Barr about his childhood in North Lanarkshire and life in Brighton.

Writer, columnist and host of London's trendiest literary salon tells Edi Stark about a childhood of extreme violence, drunkenness, homophobia and neglect, although he insists he was loved as well as hated. Newarthill in North Lanarkshire was a place he was desperate to escape and soon he found his spiritual home in Brighton where he is now married to Mike, a ceramicist who he 'sledged into on a teatray' at the age of 19 at university.

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