Folkestone literary festival
Posted by Chris H on October 28th, 2008Will is going to be at the Folkestone Academy as part of the Folkestone literary festival on Thursday at 8.30pm.
Archive for October, 2008
Necessary Steps
Posted by Chris H on October 25th, 2008For those of you suffering withdrawal pangs since the end of the Psychogeography column in the Independent, here’s another instalment of Necessary Steps, this time about travelling to Foula in Shetland, from the New York Times. And to offset the loss of Ralph Steadman’s artwork, there’s Will’s photographs instead.
Ilkley reading and interview
Posted by Chris H on October 25th, 2008Podcast interview in the Yorkshire Post and an extract from a reading Will gave at the Ilkley literature festival recently.
Newsnight Review
Posted by Chris H on October 25th, 2008To watch Will on Newsnight Review, broadcast last night, you can watch again here.
The Book Show on Sky Arts
Posted by Chris H on October 24th, 2008Will was on Sky Arts’ The Book Show last night and it looks like the episode will be available here eventually.
Why should it be a crime to help a person die?
Posted by Chris H on October 21st, 2008Following the death of Daniel James, the young rugby player whose parents helped him to go to Switzerland for euthanasia, I agree with Mary Warnock: Britain should decriminalise assisted suicide. But I’m not convinced that the means should be legislation alone.
To read the rest of Will’s Standard article, go here.
Lincoln event
Posted by Chris H on October 21st, 2008Will is going to be at the Lincoln Drill Hall tonight at 8pm.
Saturday Live
Posted by Chris H on October 17th, 2008Another chance to listen to Will on Saturday Live on Radio 4, first broadcast on July 12 this year, talking about the Olympics, the river Thames and Rave, among other things.
I’m a diehard leftie but my son is going to private school
Posted by Chris H on October 14th, 2008If England, according to Oscar Wilde, is the native land of the hypocrite, then the contortions achieved by former Left-wing supporters of state education in order to justify sending their kids to private schools have to be some of that land’s most curious rituals. When I was a child in London my parents schooled me privately to begin with, and then when the inherited dosh ran out sent me to a state school. It was at that point that my mother began to trumpet her great belief in comprehensives. Even aged 13, I couldn’t help seeing hypocrisy in this.
More Liver reviews
Posted by Chris H on October 14th, 2008Nicholas Royle in the Independent, Justine Jordan in the Guardian, Keith Miller in the TLS, and the Metro.
