Will is going to be taking part in a Q&A session at the Guardian on Monday 11 August. For more details and to submit a question, go here.
Mapplethorpe beach, Holderness coast
“This is the extraordinary beach at Mapplethorpe on the Holderness coast of east Yorkshire. I walked the length of the coast from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head in the summer of 2007 as part of the research for my misery memoir Walking to Hollywood. The Holderness coast is the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, losing six feet of its friable loess cliffs every year to the chomping of the waves. My idea was to walk the entire 35-odd miles within six feet of the cliff edge or bottom, thereby taking a route that could never be replicated. All went oddly from the start: I left my maps at Flamborough Head; my boots turned into flesh-eating monsters; and the weather was a weird compounding of bright sun and ghostly sea fret blowing in off the sea.”
On Stonehenge’s new visitor centre
Read Will Self’s take on the new visitor centre at Stonehenge from the Guardian Review here.
Stephen Gill’s Best Before End
‘A few years ago, I was walking with a friend in some fields on the southwest coast of Rousay, one of the northern isles of Orkney. There were a fair amount of cattle about, but we weren’t paying much attention to them and nor were they to us. True, one beast did look significantly bigger than the others, and I said to my friend, “Oh, d’you think that might be a bull?” at the exact moment that this rather larger kine lurched into a trot and began heading our way.
Selfish, Whining Monkeys by Rod Liddle – review
Read Will Self’s review of Rod Liddle’s Selfish, Whining Monkeys at the Guardian Review here.
The death of the serious novel
Read an edited version of this year’s Richard Hillary memorial lecture, to be given tomorrow at the Gulbenkian theatre, St Cross Building, Oxford, at the Guardian here.
On (and in) the Thames
“A few years ago, I decided to walk on the foreshore of the Thames from Battersea Park as far to the east as I could. I had observed over the years that, at especially low tides, quite large areas of hardened mud were exposed; these were either studded with pebbles and flints, or gave way to chunks of concrete slipway, or elided into true shingle. Naturally, being the sort of man I am, I hadn’t made a comprehensive survey of either the littoral or the tide table, so I soon found myself wading thigh-high in the obscuring mocha of the waters, and feeling the thick silt ooze between my sandals and my soles. Impulsiveness has at least this virtue: it impels you.
David Shrigley
An interview with and piece on David Shrigley, ahead of the Turner prize exhibition, from the Guardian Review, here.
Hatchet Job – review
Will Self’s review of Mark Kermode’s Hatchet Job, from tomorrow’s Guardian Review.
Psychiatrists: the drug pushers
Big piece by Will Self in Guardian Review at the weekend on the efficacy of psychiatry and the role of pharmaceutical companies in treating psychopathologies, which prompted this response in the Guardian letters page.
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