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Interview in Brazil

Posted by Chris H on July 22nd, 2008

Interesting little interview with Will in Brazil. And there is a second part too.

Outtakes from The Word

Posted by Chris H on May 20th, 2008

Further to an interview with Will in the May edition of The Word magazine, here are some extra bits

Guardian ‘Why I write’

Posted by Chris H on May 14th, 2008

An interview from May 9 2007

Guardian interview

Posted by Chris H on March 26th, 2008

The Guardian has one of the first interviews with Will to coincide with the publication of his new novel, The Butt.

Relative values

Posted by Chris H on October 29th, 2007

Cracking interview with Will and his brother Jonathan in the Sunday Times the other weekend. Jonathan Self’s The Teenager’s Guide to Money is out now.

Psychogeography on Night Waves

Posted by Chris H on October 16th, 2007

Will was talking about his forthcoming book, Psychogeography.

11.10.07

My London

Posted by Chris H on September 18th, 2007

A Q&A about Will’s home town, from the Evening Standard, 8.11.01

Self Destruction: SpikeMagazine.com interview

Posted by Chris M on February 27th, 2006

SpikeMagazine.com, May 1997: Chris Mitchell talks to WS about Great Apes and the aftermath of the Prime Minister heroin airplane incident:

“”People understood intuitively at that point that to have an animal that was close to human but not human threw into turmoil a whole set of categories about cosmology and the Chain of Being,” he explains. “Swift was the first of a long line of satirists in the eighteenth century to have ape fantasies and construct ape worlds; there’s a Dutch version of it, a German version - it became a very enduring theme. So I’m not so much writing in the tradition of Swift as standing this long tradition of ape fantasies on its head.”

Pre-Millennium Tension: SpikeMagazine.com interview

Posted by Chris M on February 27th, 2006

SpikeMagazine.com, April 1997: Robert Clarke talks to WS about Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys:

Dead Man Talking: SpikeMagazine.com interview

Posted by Chris M on February 27th, 2006

SpikeMagazine.com, October 2000: Chris Hall talks to Will Self about How The Dead Live: