Filth (novel) Stork Nightmares" and "Porno". Other minor characters mentioned in passing throughout "Filth" include: Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (from "Trainspotting", "Skagboys" and "Porno"), "Juice" Terry Lawson (from "Glue" and "Porno"), Danny "Spud" Murphy (from "Trainspotting", "Skagboys" and "Porno"), and "Post" Alec Connolly, a recurring character in "Glue". A film adaptation of "Filth" was released on 27 September 2013. It is directed by Jon S. Baird, from a script he also wrote. Filth (novel) Filth is a 1998 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. A sequel, "Crime", was published in 2008. It was adapted into a 2013 film of the same name,
John Irving since John Irving published "The Water-Method Man". While his second novel is regarded as a purely comic tale, and John's current project is a darker contemplation of life's disruptive forces, the two novels bear some resemblance to one another. John Irving is once again experimenting with framed narratives and writing about the evolution of a writer—like Bogus Trumper, one who writes screenplays. This time, we see the main character—Adam Brewster—mature, from childhood and early adolescence, to become a writer like Garp, or Ruth Cole, or Juan Diego, as if writing were an inevitability given the fateful circumstances of his life.