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.
Umbrella interview and pieces
As the publication of Umbrella on August 16 nears, Will Self talks to the Observer about his new Man Booker-longlisted novel (and, briefly, his next novel, which will be “Jaws without the shark”.)
Will has also written a piece in the FT about what he terms “everythingitis”, which he feels every time he finishes a book, and how he conducts his research. There’s also a long piece here that he wrote for the Guardian Review about modernism and how he got going as a writer.
Will Self on J.G. Ballard
Will Self describes the importance of J.G. Ballard’s writing in this 7 minute video from The Literature Society’s ‘Alternative Good Friday Sermon Event’.
Will Self On Why He Doesn’t Get On With Politicians
Metro newspaper has an interview with Will that covers his thoughts on politicians, appearing on Question Time, and why he’s just “a regular family guy”.
Will Self Interviewed By Clive James
There is a 4 minute video interview between Clive James and Will Self on CliveJames.com
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