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.
WG Sebald lecture
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.
Will Self and Ralph Steadman in Hove
On Tuesday December 15 at 6.30pm, Self and Steadman will be talking about their second collection of Psychogeography columns, Psycho Too, at the Old Market in Hove. Tickets cost £6 – for details, visit their website here. (Don’t be put off by the blurb that relates to the first collection – they’ll be talking about the latest one.)
Daunt Books, Chelsea
Will Self is going to be talking about Psycho Too at Daunt Books in Chelsea on Thursday December 10 at 7pm. For further details, visit the Daunt Books website.
The London Perambulator
The London Perambulator – the documentary featuring an extended interview with Will Self – is screening at Cine-City Brighton Film Festival. As well as an interview shot in Will Self’s study, there is footage of his walk with Nick Papadimitriou to Heathrow en-route to LA last July. A short excerpt from the film can be viewed here.
The film will be screened this Thursday 26 November at 8pm at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Grand Parade, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 0JY. For more details, visit the Cine-City website.
Question Time
Will Self is going to be on Question Time from Weston super Mare this Thursday at 10.45pm on BBC1. The panel also includes the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Shaun Woodward, and James Cracknell, the rower.
Nineteen Raptures charity event
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.
Book Now event at Richmond
Will Self introduces his “brilliant Psycho Too, a meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world. It brings together a second helping of the very best words and pictures from Psychogeography – the columns Self contributed to the Independent for half a decade; accompanied by Ralph Steadman’s edgy, and dazzling artwork” at Book Now – Richmond upon Thames’ annual literature festival, Clarendon Hall, York House, November 24, 7.30pm, £10 (£8.50 concession) – £5 of ticket redeemable against book price.
Will Self and Ralph Steadman at the Roundhouse
Will Self and Ralph Steadman will be at the Studio Theatre, the Roundhouse, Camden on November 10 at 7.30pm to talk about their second collection of Psychogeography columns in the Independent, Psycho Too (here’s a brief review from Publishers Weekly), which is dedicated to the memory of JG Ballard.
Libraries are for literature, not lattes
Piece in the Herald, ahead of Will Self’s appearance at the North Lanarkshire Words festival on Thursday October 29 at the Motherwell library, 7.30pm.
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