Will Self is going to be at Express Excess on Wednesday 20 January at 8.30pm at The Enterprise pub, Haverstock Hill, Camden, London. He’ll be “reading or riffing or taking questions or maybe something completely different, with surprise guests, and Logan Murray, master of the comic verse, regales us with his virtuoso delivery”. Admission is £5. For tickets or details, call 020-7485 2659.

Will Self is going to be giving the annual WG Sebald lecture at Kings Place in London on Monday 11 January at 7pm. Self will analyse Sebald’s Holocaust writing in the light of the evolving historical understanding of the Holocaust and the part the German people took in it. Self asks whether, when it comes to such crimes against humanity, it is possible for there to be a literature either by, or about, the perpetrators, and what purpose such writings might fulfil.

For further details and for tickets, which cost £9.50, visit the Kings Place website or the UEA website here.

Nineteen authors, including Will Self, Billy Childish, Bill Drummond and Beth Orton, were asked to write on the subject of addiction, obsession and compulsion by The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust. All proceeds from the sale of the resulting publication, Nineteen Raptures, will go to the charity, which offers drug and alcohol treatment services to prisoners in UK jails. Self’s contribution is called The Triangle of Self Obsession.

On 11 November, Self will read selected texts from 7.30pm, at the Rochelle School and Club Row (Club Row entrance), Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES. For further details go here. Admission is £35 in advance, £40 on the door, and includes a £22 copy of the publication.