http://will-self.com Writer Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://will-self.com/2010/06/02/liverish-london/#comment-207 will-self.com » Blog Archive » ‘Tis Pity He Was a Horsley Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:32:32 +0000 http://will-self.com/?p=1250#comment-207 [...] and used him – quite unashamedly – as the model for the barman, Hilary Edmonds, in my story Foie Humain from [...] [...] and used him – quite unashamedly – as the model for the barman, Hilary Edmonds, in my story Foie Humain from [...]

]]> http://will-self.com/2006/02/02/at-the-blackrose-netcafe/#comment-151 will-self.com » Blog Archive » Bekonscot model village Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://will-self.com/2006/02/02/at-the-blackrose-netcafe/#comment-151 [...] interviews Self about the appeal of miniature villages and also mentions Self’s short story Scale, in which the morphine-addicted protagonist lives beside Bekonscot model village, which is [...] [...] interviews Self about the appeal of miniature villages and also mentions Self’s short story Scale, in which the morphine-addicted protagonist lives beside Bekonscot model village, which is [...]

]]> http://will-self.com/2006/10/17/172/#comment-8 will-self.com » Blog Archive » Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:27:36 +0000 http://will-self.com/2006/10/17/172/#comment-8 [...] From Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] Self, the provocative British raconteur who used the Tibetan Book of the Dead to map London (How the Dead Live, 2000) is taking another literary shot across his home city’s bow. In his gleaming new puzzlebook, Self creates a dystopian future London, ruled by a cynosure of priests, lawyers and the monarchy. He invents Arpee, the musical language they speak that is based on a sacred text—The Book of Dave—which also serves, satirically, as the society’s moral and legal foundation. And who is this deity named Dave? An embittered London cabbie from the distant past—the year 2000.As the book opens, the kingdom of Ingerland is ruled by the elite and ruthless PCO. (Self is riffing on the Public Carriage Office, London’s transit authority.) People live according to The Book of Dave, which was recovered after a great flood wiped out London in the MadeinChina era. Flashing back more than 500 years, cabbie Dave Rudman types out his idiosyncratic, misogynist, bile-tinged fantasies while in a fit of antidepressant-induced psychosis and battling over the custody of his child, Carl. His screed becomes both a blueprint for a harsh childrearing climate (mummies and daddies living apart, with the kids splitting time between them) and a full-blown cosmology. [...] [...] From Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] Self, the provocative British raconteur who used the Tibetan Book of the Dead to map London (How the Dead Live, 2000) is taking another literary shot across his home city’s bow. In his gleaming new puzzlebook, Self creates a dystopian future London, ruled by a cynosure of priests, lawyers and the monarchy. He invents Arpee, the musical language they speak that is based on a sacred text—The Book of Dave—which also serves, satirically, as the society’s moral and legal foundation. And who is this deity named Dave? An embittered London cabbie from the distant past—the year 2000.As the book opens, the kingdom of Ingerland is ruled by the elite and ruthless PCO. (Self is riffing on the Public Carriage Office, London’s transit authority.) People live according to The Book of Dave, which was recovered after a great flood wiped out London in the MadeinChina era. Flashing back more than 500 years, cabbie Dave Rudman types out his idiosyncratic, misogynist, bile-tinged fantasies while in a fit of antidepressant-induced psychosis and battling over the custody of his child, Carl. His screed becomes both a blueprint for a harsh childrearing climate (mummies and daddies living apart, with the kids splitting time between them) and a full-blown cosmology. [...]

]]> http://will-self.com/2006/06/16/the-starship-lack-of-enterprise/#comment-6 Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Self Reflection Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:43:56 +0000 http://will-self.com/?p=164#comment-6 [...] Somehow the folks at Splinters have convinced Will Self to blog. Let’s hope he doesn’t fizzle out after a few posts. [...] [...] Somehow the folks at Splinters have convinced Will Self to blog. Let’s hope he doesn’t fizzle out after a few posts. [...]

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