Ilkley literature festival
Posted by Chris H on August 27th, 2009Will Self will be appearing at the Ilkley literature festival on Sunday October 11 at 2pm at the Kings Hall as part of his Psycho Too tour.
Archive for August, 2009
Cheltenham literature festival
Posted by Chris H on August 19th, 2009You can see Will Self talking about his second collection of psychogeography columns, Psycho Too, at the Cheltenham festival on Friday October 16 by booking tickets here.
Woman’s Hour
Posted by Chris H on August 19th, 2009Interview around the time of The Book of Dave on Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour about single dads.
What makes a real lady?
Posted by Chris H on August 13th, 2009Is the question asked of Will Self by, unsurprisingly, The Lady Magazine. Read part of his answer here. To read the rest, you’ll need to buy the magazine.
Werner Herzog interview
Posted by Chris H on August 13th, 2009An interview with the German – or, more specifically, Bavarian – director Werner Herzog, whose Encounters at the End of the World is out now.
Four Werner Herzog moments:
1. The opening sequence of his 1972 film Aguirre, Wrath of God, so astonishingly other for a teenager in the acrid darkness of a 1970s London cinema. I remember the porcelain face of the Madonna in her glass box, then the camera reverse-zooming, so that we see the conquistadors strung out along the jungle path. Back and back the camera pulls, revealing more and more immensities of mountain. It’s a perfect image: the European invaders, with their religious baggage, reduced to the status of ants crawling up a log.
