Stop Smiling
Posted by Chris H on July 1st, 2009An interview with Will Self in Stop Smiling Magazine from 2007, around the time of the publication of The Book of Dave.
How the Dead Live
Posted by Chris H on July 1st, 2009You can find the Epilogue to How the Dead Live at the Guardian here.
The Final Approach
Posted by Chris H on July 1st, 2009To watch the final part of The Secret Life of the Airport on BBC4, in which Will Self talks about Heathrow becoming a modernist ruin, among other things, go here.
Piccadillyland
Posted by Chris H on June 25th, 2009The Daily Telegraph writes that travellers starting their journeys on the Piccadilly Line at Heathrow, Cockfosters or Uxbridge can currently pick up a free copy of Piccadillyland, a 120-page compilation of references to stations on the Tube line from more than 100 novels, including works by Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer and Will Self, part of the ongoing project Art on the Underground.
Edinburgh man
Posted by Chris H on June 24th, 2009Will Self is going to be at the Edinburgh international book festival on Sunday August 23 2009, 6.30pm-7.30pm:
“Human anatomy, contemporary culture, seemingly parallel universes, nothing is beyond the scope of Will Self’s wildly fertile imagination. From the Kafkaesque nightmare of The Butt to the appetites, addictions and excesses of Liver, his take on the world around us is utterly unique. A master of the satirical and the grotesque.”
New Penguin paperbacks
Posted by Chris H on June 23rd, 2009To coincide with the paperback release of Liver, £7.99, Penguin is also publishing Dorian, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, and How the Dead Live, all at £8.99.
Joining the Jet Set
Posted by Chris H on June 22nd, 2009To watch the second part of the BBC’s The Secret Life of the Airport series, visit the iplayer here.
A Report to the Minister
Posted by Chris H on June 20th, 2009Will Self’s story set in Bushy Park, London, for the Royal Parks series of short stories that take their inspiration from London’s Royal Parks, is now available here for £2.
In praise of industrial estates
Posted by Chris H on June 20th, 2009“A couple of years ago, the writer Nick Royle and I decided that we would undertake the Three Peaks Challenge. We’d get another rambling writer to join us, raise sponsorship and give the proceeds to charity. However, it transpired that there were grave environmental concerns about the peaks. The sheer numbers of sponsored walkers clambering up Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon were leading to catastrophic erosion, denudation of flora, scaring off of fauna – not to mention the large quantities of plastic water bottles that were left behind by these charitable folk.
The Secret Life of the Airport: Preparing for Take Off
Posted by Chris H on June 16th, 2009Will Self is one of the contributors to this BBC4 three-part series charting the development of Britain’s airports and how they have transformed the country.
The first part “takes us from the heady, imperial glamour of Britain’s first airport terminal at Croydon to the internationally agreed hieroglyphics on today’s taxiways and runways. Using rare archive and access to airports’ hidden corners, it reveals the intense local rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion for flight behind our airports.” It’s available on the BBC iplayer until July 6.
