http://will-self.com The official website of novelist and journalist Will Self Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:54:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I think it ill behoves recovering alcoholics – among whose number I include myself – to complain about the mores of the great drinking majority. After all, we’ve had our fill, and we’d be well advised to shut up and take our sparkling mineral water like the good men and ... http://will-self.com/2010/03/20/my-search-for-a-grown-up-soft-drink/ The latest Madness of Crowds column from the New Statesman: The age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is - as has been remarked on many times in the past few weeks - almost the lowest in the EU. A child of 10 can be convicted of a criminal ... http://will-self.com/2010/03/20/the-return-of-britains-lynch-mob/ Will Self has written an essay about London from 1989 to 2009 for the London +10 exhibition at the Architectural Association Gallery in London, which is on until March 26. For more details visit their website here. Here is the essay in full: In 1989 I was working for the Grocer ... http://will-self.com/2010/03/18/london-10-exhibition-at-the-aa/ For World Book Day, Will Self was asked by the Times which book he'd like to give and receive: "One to give: I would like to give JR Ackerley’s My Father and Myself to the entire Tory shadow cabinet. While ostensibly fashioning a memoir of a late Victorian bourgeois paterfamilias, Ackerley ... http://will-self.com/2010/03/17/world-book-day-choices/ Will Self is going to be giving a reading at the De La Warr Pavilion on Thursday April 22 at 6.30pm, followed by a Q&A and a book signing. Tickets are free. For further details, visit their website. http://will-self.com/2010/03/17/de-la-warr-pavilion/ A review of Will Self's gig at the Thunderbolt pub in Bristol last month at Bristol Life. http://will-self.com/2010/03/17/thunderbolt-enlightening/ Will Self has written in introduction for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne by Visual Editions, a new London-based book publisher. The book, which is designed by A Practice for Everyday Life, is due out in June. http://will-self.com/2010/03/17/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy/ David Eagleman, the neuroscientist and author of Sum, is going to be in conversation with Will Self on March 25 at a rare appearance at Conway Hall in London. For further details and to book tickets, go here. http://will-self.com/2010/03/16/david-eagleman-talk/ "I find it absolutely mind-boggling that on our high streets there are more than 214 branches of Nando's, a restaurant chain originally started in South Africa by ethnic Portuguese refugees from Mozambique - but then I suppose that says everything about my failure to grasp the following: capitalism, globalisation, the ... http://will-self.com/2010/03/15/real-meals-nandos/ "Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), to which this column owes its title, devotes a chapter to the subject of men's hair and beards. However, while Mackay locates the fashion for western men to wear their hair short in St Paul's declaration that 'long hair ... http://will-self.com/2010/03/10/facial-discrimination/