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Will Self – The Olympics Suck

February 1, 2012

Epigram, Bristol University’s Independent Student Newspaper, has a splenetic interview with Will about why the forthcoming London Olympics “suck dogshit through a straw”.

Will Self in The Best Of Spike Magazine

January 16, 2012

There are four vintage interviews with Will Self featured in the newly published Kindle ebook The Best Of SpikeMagazine.com – The Interviews, now available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.

Ranging from 1997 to 2002, the four interviews cover Will’s novels Great Apes and How the Dead Live as well as the short story collection Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys and the journalism collection Feeding Frenzy. The interviews with Will feature alongside conversations with JG Ballard, Ralph Steadman, Douglas Coupland, Quentin Crisp, Julie Burchill, Catherine Camus (daughter of Albert Camus) and more.

All of the interviews in the book are still available to read online at SpikeMagazine.com and in a free downloadable PDF too.

On cycling

September 28, 2011

Will Self talks about cycling at a recent Intelligence Squared debate at the Royal Geographical Society, above, and at a Q&A with Geoff Dyer and others, below, where he defends going through red lights, and much more besides.

Cycling festival

September 8, 2011

Listen to Will Self talking about cycling here, ahead of tonight’s Intelligence Squared debate at the Royal Geographical Society. There are some tickets left apparently; details here.

The London Perambulator

September 2, 2011

The brilliant London Perambulator documentary about the “deep topographer” Nick Papadimitriou, and featuring contributions from Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand, can now be seen in its entirety here.

Edinburgh festival interview

August 26, 2011

Ahead of Will Self’s appearances at the Edinburgh festival this weekend, here’s a preview from edinburgh-festivals.com:

“Will Self crosses Frith Street at a lope, a very tall man with a very small dog. Today, the writer, psychogeographer and urban wanderer has agreed to walk with me across London, from Bar Italia, at the throbbing heart of Soho, to the White Cube gallery, in the now-trendified East End. Maglorian, his Jack Russell, will accompany us.”

To read the rest of the interview, go here.

Paris Review interview

June 24, 2011

An interview with Will Self about Walking to Hollywood at the Paris Review here.

This Green and Pleasant Land

May 17, 2011

Watch Will Self tonight on BBC4 talking about the history of British landscape painting at 9pm.

Creative writing course? Get a job instead

May 10, 2011

“I’m still not convinced creative writing can be taught. Perhaps you can take a mediocre novelist and make them into a slightly better one, but a course can’t make someone into a good writer. Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguru both did the UEA MA, but they were both innately good anyway. Some people swear by creative-writing courses. I say, go and get a job, a fairly menial one, instead. Otherwise, what are you going to write about? Writing is about expressing something new and exploring the form in new ways. So unless you want to churn out thrillers or misery memoirs, you can’t work from a pattern book. You need to autodidact.”

Read the rest of the Guardian’s article here.

The tweet smell of psychosis

May 7, 2011

Will Self asks “Is the internet inherently psychotic?” in this short interview recorded for insideopera.com.

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Will’s Latest Book

Will Self - Elaine
Will Self's latest book Elaine will be published in hardback by Grove on September 5 2024 in the UK and September 17 2024 in the USA.

You can pre-order at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

Will’s Previous Books

Will Self - Will
Will
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  Will Self - Phone
Phone
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Shark
Shark
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  Umbrella
Umbrella
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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  Walking To Hollywood
Walking To Hollywood
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The Butt
The Butt
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  Grey Area
Grey Area
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Junk Mail
Junk Mail
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  Great Apes
Great Apes
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Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
Psycho II
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  Liver
Liver
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How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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  Dorian
Dorian
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Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy
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Amazon.com
  Sore Sites
Sore Sites
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Perfidious Man
Perfidious Man
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  The Undivided Self
The Undivided Self
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