From the Architectural Association’s weekly freesheet, Fulcrum.
On cycling
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.
The London Perambulator
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.
Bloomsbury giveaway
Bloomsbury has a competition on Twitter to win 10 of Will Self’s newly designed books – for details go to their Twitter page, http://twitter.com/#!/BloomsburyBooks.
New Bloomsbury book covers
Greg Heinimann at Bloomsbury has created a series of new book covers for Will Self’s back catalogue to coincide with the paperback publication of Walking to Hollywood (below) in September. The new covers are for My Idea of Fun, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Cock & Bull, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Junk Mail, Grey Area, Great Apes and The Butt.
Read a short report about it in Creative Review here.
Brixton Speaks
Bloody flyovers
“Sometimes I think I may be losing … my incident room”
Listen to Bomb the Bass’s track 5ml Barrel, from their album Clear, featuring Will Self.
Riddley Walker transcript
Pretty much a verbatim transcript of Self’s recent British Library conversation with Russell Hoban about his 1980 masterpiece Riddley Walker, for which Self wrote an introduction to the 20th anniversary edition, can be found here.
The Story of O
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:
JG Ballard on Resonance FM
On Wednesday 8 September, from 7pm to 8pm, on the London arts radio station Resonance FM (resonancefm.com), journalist and will-self.com co-manager Chris Hall will be talking about the life and work of JG Ballard with James DC, John Churchill, and Howard Aggregate in the first of a new series of Atomic Bark covering SF, fantasy and horror.
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