An interview with i-D ahead of one of Will’s recent Bookslam appearances, talking about music.
Will Self: Interviews with Will
Will Self at the London Book Fair
Watch Will Self in conversation with Claire Armitstead, the Guardian’s books editor, at the recent London Book Fair.
Neural representations of space
Listen to Will Self on the Today programme talking about the work he’s done with the neuroscientist Hugo Spiers studying the role of the hippocampus in orientation. Will also makes an interesting analogy between this process and writing narrative.
For more details about the University College London research, go here.
One & Other York interview
Interview with Will Self for One & Other York, oneandother.com, in PDF form here.
Today interview
Listen to Will Self talking on the Today programme on the day of the Man Booker prize announcement, which will be at around 9.40pm tonight. There’s also a news story on the BBC about Will and Hilary Mantel being joint favourites for the prize.
Shortlist interview
A recent interview with Will Self in Shortlist magazine, taking in Umbrella, the Booker, the Olympics and more besides.
Beyond Kafka’s Wound
Will Self discusses a range of issues provoked by his digital essay Kafka’s Wound at thespace.lrb.co.uk with Nicholas Spice and Helen Jeffrey from the London Review of Books, and Dan Franklin, Digital Publisher at Random House.
Is this unique digital essay a proto-form for a new type of deeper engagement with long form content on the web? What can modernism tell us about the digital storm sweeping through our world? How might collaborative digital authorship move forward? What next?
Today programme interview
Listen to a longer interview with Will Self on the Today programme on the BBC website here, talking about encephalitis lethargica, the subject of his latest novel, Umbrella.
Paris Review interview
An interview with Will Self, conducted last August, has just been published by Paris Review.
Digital essay on Kafka
Will Self’s “digital essay” on Kafka has been published in its entirety at the Space website, and includes an hour-long video of his trip to Prague and readings of Kafka’s “A Country Doctor”. For a short explanation of this unique London Review of Books commission, go here or visit thespace.org or @thespacearts for more details.