Read why at the New Statesman here.
Rachel Howard At Sea
Rachel Howard At Sea from Hastings Contemporary on Vimeo.
Watch Will Self in conversation with Rachel Howard about her exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, Rachel Howard At Sea, which is on until 4 October.
The Future of the Skyscraper
Will Self has contributed an essay to The Future of the Skyscraper, the first volume in the new SOM Thinkers series, conceived by the architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and published by Metropolis books.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
iAnna Russian Dolls
Amy Fellows, a final-year student in Illustration at Norwich NUA, was inspired by Will Self’s short story iAnna – which was written to mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 – to create a set of Russian Dolls looking at “themes of madness, technology and internal incarceration”. Here, she gives a brief description of what the piece is about:
“The work is a response to Will Self’s short story iAnna as part of my second year at NUA, where I’m currently doing a degree in Illustration. (We were briefed to create a cover and four illustrations.) I set out to convey a sense of clinical inspection by shooting the work in my white-tiled bathroom and the decoupaged dolls are a description of the characters and themes throughout the story. I used historical images of the medical world to suggest that the madness in iAnna is a progression of images we associate with the notorious Bedlam Hospital. The structure of the piece itself may be internalised – a comment on the human mind and the way we treat mental health today.”
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Self Orbits CERN
BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast Self Orbits CERN, a series of five radio shows which follow Will Self on a 50km walking tour around the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva. You can listen to all five shows on the BBC website.
Radio 4 Appeal for Shape
Will Self presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Shape, a disability-led arts organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people. For further information, visit the Shape website here.
Guardian Q&A
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.
Shark events and autumn/winter appearances
25 July: Urban Psychosis, An evening with Will Self, Manchester.
12 August: Edinburgh Book Festival, 8pm, Charlotte Square Gardens, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR.
9 September: City Books, 7pm, Ropetackle Arts Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5EG. Tickets £8 available from Ropetackle or City Books.
10 September: Topping and Company Booksellers, The Paragon, Bath, Somerset BA1 5LS.
11 September: LRB bookshop, 7pm.
16 September: Desert Island Flicks, Arnolfini, Bristol.
17-19 September: Annual Conference and Social Housing Exhibition, ICC, Birmingham.
22 September: 5×15 at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London. Sold out.
23 September: Wakefield Lit Fest, 7.30pm, Unity Hall, Wakefield.
26 September: Shakespeare & Co, Paris.
30 September: In conversation with Mark Wallinger about Labyrinth at the LRB bookshop, 7pm.
2 October: Words in Walden Festival, 7.30pm, Friends’ School Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3EB.
3 October: Cheltenham Festival, Shark event.
4 October: Cheltenham Festival, National Conversation Event organised by Norwich Writer’s Centre.
7 October: The State We’re In, Brunel University, 5pm-6pm.
9 October: Ilkley Literature Festival, Kings Hall in Ilkley.
11 October: Havant Literary Festival, 8pm, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, East Street, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 1BS.
14 October: Archway With Words.
16 October: The Playhouse Theatre, Norwich.
17 October: The Regal Cinema Evesham.
18 October: Nottingham Lit Fest.
21 October: Plymouth International Book Festival, 8pm, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University.
25 October: Manchester Literature Festival Writer’s Conference, keynote speech in the morning followed by an “in conversation with…” in the afternoon.
4 November: 5×15, Conway Hall.
12 November: Intelligence Squared debate on psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry and mental disorders, Royal Geographical Society, 7pm.
13 November: Bristol Grammar School, 7pm, Great Hall, Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SR.
14 November: Literary Leicester, 6pm.
21 November: Being Human Festival, Aberdeen.
25 November: Granta event\ at Notting Hill Community Church, Kensington Park Rd, London W11 2ES with Iain Sinclair discussing JG Ballard, 7pm.
29 November: Big Gothic Debate, 4pm-7pm, Lutyens Crypt, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Leggat theatre, Liverpool University.
3 December: 6pm, University of London Institute, Paris.
Live: Death
Watch Will Self talking about death at an RSA event tonight at 6.30pm.
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