To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Penguin asked authors to name their favourite from its classics backlist. Will Self explains why he picked HG Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Self has also written about the “significance of catastrophe books” on the Penguin website.
Still on a Bristol theme, Self has written about Massive Attack’s new album, Heligoland, for the Sunday Times, which can be read here.
For all those of you asking to see Will Self’s Sebald lecture, it’s now available on the Times website here, not just in the TLS. Enjoy it while there’s no paywall …
For those of you who can read German, there’s also an interesting review of the lecture by Gina Thomas at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
An interview with the German – or, more specifically, Bavarian – director Werner Herzog, whose Encounters at the End of the World is out now.
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