The joys of walking
Posted by Chris H on July 28th, 2009Interesting and lengthy email interview between Geoff Nicholson, author of The Lost Art of Walking, and Will Self in the Believer magazine. For the full article go here.
Archive for the 'Psychogeography' Category
La Times Psychogeography review
Posted by Chris H on July 24th, 2009Karrie Higgins reviews Will Self’s first collection of Psychogeography columns from the Independent in the LA Times. The second collection, Psycho Too, will be published in November by Bloomsbury.
The Verb: Walking to the World
Posted by Chris H on May 24th, 2009Another chance to listen to Will Self on The Verb talking about his walk from JG Ballard’s house in Shepperton to Heathrow and then his two-day trek from the airport in Dubai to The World resort. He also gives a short reading. The essay will feature as the introduction to his second collection of Psychogeography columns to be published in November by Bloomsbury.
Cheers, Boston
Posted by Chris H on April 8th, 2009Boston Globe: “Sex on airplanes? Are you speaking from experience?”
Self: “Yes. Well, yes. Is it necessary to elaborate? Sex is ubiquitous and stereotypic. I haven’t got any extra genitalia or anything.”
Interview with the Boston Globe on Will Self’s Psychogeography book tour of the States.
Garment District
Posted by Chris H on September 1st, 2008Read Will’s latest Necessary Steps column in the New York Times.
26.08.08
Psychogeography
Posted by Chris M on July 19th, 2008
Psychogeography – Will Self
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Synopsis:
Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their “Psychogeography” columns for the “Independent”. The introduction, ‘Walking to New York’, is both a prelude to the verbal and visual essays that make up this extraordinary collaboration, and a revealing exploration of the split in Self’s Jewish American British psyche and its relationship to the political geography of the post 9/11 world. Ranging from the Scottish Highlands to Istanbul and from Morocco to Ohio, Will Self’s engaging and disturbing vision is perfectly counter pointed by Ralph Steadman’s edgy and beautiful artwork.
