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Poetry Shack appearance

May 3, 2022

Will is going to be performing at The Poetry Shack at the Candid Arts Centre in London at 7pm on 31 May, along with Stewart Home and others. To book tickets, visit candidartslondon.com.

Celebrating 100 years of Eliot’s The Waste Land

March 29, 2022

Will is going to be in conversation with Steven Gale at the fragments festival in London on Sunday April 10, celebrating 100 years of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. “These will be short, 15-minute events in 22 of London’s most beautiful churches. It takes place in the City of London in the actual geography of the poem’s setting and where Eliot worked at Lloyds Bank when writing the poem.” Here’s the full programme.

Will is going to discuss the Modernist approach, the inheritors of Eliot, and the fraught relationship between content and form.

Lincoln Book Festival

October 1, 2021

Will is going to be talking to Dr Guy Mankowski about his latest book, Will, and ‘whether it captures the diversity of his life or, as suggested in the Daily Telegraph, is “Just another Selfian character, subject to absolute authorial control, the fragmented derangement of his youth woven into an intricate and coherent whole by the mature author”‘ at the Lincoln Book Festival on 14 October at 6.30pm. Tickets cost £10 and can be bought here.

Ports Fest July 3

June 27, 2021

Tickets are available for Will’s talk and Q&A this Saturday online at 2-3.30pm at Ports Fest. The talk “will explore ways in which we remember the fiction we read during childhood and youth, the role of memory, and our views of facticity” and Will will also read from his latest book, Will: A Memoir.

How to be Creative

June 16, 2021



From an online talk for the How to Academy.

Film Club: Will Self on Andrei Tarkovsky

February 23, 2021

Another online How to Academy event with Will, this time on the films of Andrei Tarkovsky on 11 March at 6.30pm GMT. For more info and tickets, go here.

Drugs and addiction discussion with David Nutt

February 16, 2021

Will is going to be in conversation with Professor David Nutt to talk about drugs and addiction on 25 February at 6.30pm GMT for the How to Academy. For tickets and more information go here.

‘Is there a Culture War and can it be won?’

November 12, 2020

How to Academy events

October 7, 2020

There are a couple of live online events coming up that Will is doing for the How to Academy. On 10 November from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, he’ll be giving a talk on death and bereavement. Then on 18 November from 6.30pm to 7.30pm he’ll be talking to Ralph Steadman.

How to Live a More Creative Life

July 27, 2020

Will Self will be giving an hour-long talk for the How To Academy in a livestream at 6.30pm on Wednesday July 29 on the subject of creativity. For tickets and further details, visit the How To Academy website here.

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Will Self's latest book Will is published in hardback by Viking on 14 November 2019.

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Will’s Previous Books

Will Self - Phone
Phone
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  Shark
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Umbrella
Umbrella
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  The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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The Undivided Self
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  Walking To Hollywood
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The Butt
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  Grey Area
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Junk Mail
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  Great Apes
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Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
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  Liver
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How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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  Dorian
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Feeding Frenzy
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  Sore Sites
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Perfidious Man
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