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Upcoming events for 2011

December 28, 2010

January 20: Will Self will be speaking about his love for Montaigne at the Institut Français in London. He will talk about the time when he first discovered Montaigne, whether it was love at first sight, whether he often rereads the Essays, whether he has encouraged his friends to read them and whether Montaigne has ever disappointed him. And he may attempt to answer the most important question: should we read Montaigne, and why? For further details and to buy tickets, visit their website here.

January 24: What’s New about the New Year? Will Self will be in conversation with Matthew De Abaitua at Komedia in Brighton tackling such burning issues as: What exactly is new about the new year? Do Cameron and Clegg share the same photocopier user number? And are Kylie Minogue and Rolf Harris the same person? With special guests on the night, hosted by Paul Lyalls. For tickets go here.

January 27: Question Time in Cambridge. Carol Vorderman is unconfirmed. Watch again here.

February 10: Talk with John Gray to discuss his new book – The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death – Darwin’s ideas and much else besides at the Royal Society of Arts. Details here. If you can’t make it along, you can listen to it online at the RSA website.

February 15: In conversation with Russell Hoban about Riddley Walker at the British Library. Details here.

March 14: Will Self argues the case for his favourite building in London, Stockwell bus garage, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Tickets will be available from January 4; details will be here.

Nightwaves: The rhetoric of family

December 24, 2010

Listen to Will Self talking about the idea of the family on Nightwaves on the BBC iplayer here (available until December 29). Self’s contribution is in the first 10 minutes or so of the programme, in which he talks about how politicians have used the rhetoric of family and how George Osborne’s likening of the national debt to a family’s finances is “specious and insidious”.

Will Self: In Confidence

December 4, 2010

Watch Laurie Taylor interviewing Will Self on the Sky Arts series In Confidence, posted on You Tube in various parts beginning here.

The Story of O

November 2, 2010

Listen to Will Self talking about Pauline Réage’s cult book Story of O on Mark and Lard’s Radio 1 show from the 1990s:

The Secret Life of the National Grid

October 24, 2010

Watch Will Self taking part in The Secret Life of the National Grid on BBC4, a new three-part series “charting the development of Britain’s national electricity grid and how it sparked modern Britain into being – transforming our landscape, our politics and our lives”. It starts on Tuesday at 9pm.

Watch it here on the iplayer. Watch part two here. Watch part three here.

Will Self In The Spike Magazine PDF

October 19, 2010

There are four classic interviews with Will Self featured in the newly published Spike Magazine PDF — a 600 page anthology of the best interviews, features and reviews from SpikeMagazine.com that’s completely free to download.

The interviews with Will cover Great Apes and the 1997 General Election; the short story collection Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys; How The Dead Live; and the journalist collection Feeding Frenzy.

There’s also numerous interviews with other authors that may be of interest to Will Self fans, especially the JG Ballard interviews about Cronenberg’s movie adaptation of Crash, and also the novels Rushing To Paradise, Millennium People and Super Cannes.

You download the Spike Magazine PDF here.

Resonance FM sewer tour

October 5, 2010

Listen to Will Self being interviewed by Bruno Rinvolucri as he takes him on a two-part tour of the sewers of Brixton on Tunnel Vision Thursday October 14 at 4.30pm on Resonance FM (resonancefm.com), where they will discuss “the spatialisation of human waste, the architecture of sanitation, excremental stalagmites and stalactites” among other things. If you don’t live in London, you can still listen to it live on their website. Read Self’s blog about it here.

And tonight, October 12, you can listen to Chris Hall, journalist and co-manager of will-self.com, discuss the life and work of Philip K Dick on Atomic Bark with host James DC, film-maker Ben Slotover, and the artistic director of Foolish People John Harrigan also on Resonance FM, at 11pm.

You can now listen to the show here.

Self on Self

September 30, 2010

Listen to Will Self and Martin Amis (and others) talking about putting themselves in their fiction from the Guardian Books podcast here.

Bookslam reading and interview

September 30, 2010

Listen to Will Self being interviewed after his appearance at Bookslam recently and also to him giving a reading from Walking to Hollywood.

Watch ‘Obsessed with Walking’

September 21, 2010

Watch some clips from the fascinating 30-minute Australian film Obsessed with Walking by Rosie Jones, which follows Will Self around Los Angeles “doing field research” for his book Walking to Hollywood and interviews him at home in London too.

Obsessed with Walking clip 1

Obsessed with Walking clip 2

Obsessed with Walking clip 3

To listen to the director talking about why and how she made the film, go here. For more information about the film, visit the Flaming Star Films website. To buy a copy of Obsessed with Walking go here.

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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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Amazon.com
Shark
Shark
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Amazon.com
  Umbrella
Umbrella
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Amazon.com
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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Amazon.com
The Butt
The Butt
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Amazon.com
  Grey Area
Grey Area
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Amazon.com
Junk Mail
Junk Mail
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Amazon.com
  Great Apes
Great Apes
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Amazon.com
Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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Amazon.com
  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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Amazon.com
The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
  My Idea Of Fun
My Idea Of Fun
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Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
The Book Of Dave
The Book Of Dave
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Amazon.com
  Psychogeography
Psychogeography
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Amazon.com
Psycho Too
Psycho II
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Amazon.com
  Liver
Liver
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Amazon.com
How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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Amazon.com
  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
  Dorian
Dorian
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Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy
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Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
  Sore Sites
Sore Sites
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Amazon.com
Perfidious Man
Perfidious Man
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Amazon.com
  The Undivided Self
The Undivided Self
More info Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
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