You can find Will Self’s introduction to Russell Hoban’s masterpiece, Riddley Walker, here, which has obvious parallels with Self’s The Book of Dave.
The Happy Detective (Part 2)
The second instalment of Will Self’s The Happy Detective will be released on Snow Patrol’s Late Night Tales at the end of the month. The first part is on Groove Armada’s Late Night Tales, released last year.
Liver in America
Bloomsbury USA will be publishing a hardback edition of Liver in November, details here. Apologies for the James Brown pun.
Bekonscot model village
Fascinating article by Edwin Heathcote in the FT, who interviews Self about the appeal of miniature villages and also mentions Self’s short story Scale, in which the morphine-addicted protagonist lives beside Bekonscot model village, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary.
Of psyches, ids and egos
A short review of the conversation between Will Self, Susie Orbach and Andrew O’Hagan at the Southbank Centre recently.
In conversation with Martin Amis
To listen to Will Self talking to John Banville and Martin Amis about literature in the 21st century at the University of Manchester, visit the Manchester Review.
Martin Amis is going to be talking with Will Self on Monday October 12 on the subject of Literature and Sex at the Martin Harris Centre at the University of Manchester. For details of the event and to book a place, go here.
Granta 107
In the current issue of Granta (107), Will Self has written about the late JG Ballard. You can buy a copy from Amazon for £7.69 when it’s published on July 31.
Piccadillyland
The Daily Telegraph writes that travellers starting their journeys on the Piccadilly Line at Heathrow, Cockfosters or Uxbridge can currently pick up a free copy of Piccadillyland, a 120-page compilation of references to stations on the Tube line from more than 100 novels, including works by Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer and Will Self, part of the ongoing project Art on the Underground.
A Report to the Minister
Will Self’s story set in Bushy Park, London, for the Royal Parks series of short stories that take their inspiration from London’s Royal Parks, is now available here for £2.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
On the 60th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Independent asked writers what they thought about it, and to cite their favourite reads. Will Self chose Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night:
“1984 is an alternative-world book, and I write alternative-world books. It’s an alternative London book. I think the success of his parallel world is where its appeal lies. So, the Chestnut Tree café was modelled on a café in South End Green. It’s a bricolage of London in 1948. I wouldn’t say it’s in the top 10 that have influenced me as a writer, but it’s probably in the top 20 or 30.
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night had a great influence. He wrote, not about reality, but the hallucination reality provokes. I took that as a motto for my work. It liberated my thinking.”
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