There’s a rare chance to catch Will in the States this week – tonight at 7pm he’ll be at a free event at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138; on Thursday at 7.30pm he’ll be reading from Phone with Martin Amis at 92ND STREET Y, Unterberg Poetry Center, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, 10128; and on Saturday at 6pm he’ll be at: Politics and Prose book store, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC, 20008.
Phone book tour and radio, summer and autumn 2017
Wednesday 24 May: 6pm, International Literature Festival Dublin, Smock Alley Theatre, 6/7 Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin. (This event is being recorded for broadcast on The Book Show for RTÉ Radio 1.)
Tuesday 30 May: Radio 5 Live Afternoon Edition live interview. Later that evening, Radio 4 Front Row live interview.
Friday 2 June: 5.30pm, Hay festival, Tata Tent.
Tuesday 13 June: 7pm-8.30pm, Guardian Live in conversation with John Mullan, Islington Assembly Hall.
Thursday 29 June: 8pm, Hebden Bridge arts festival, Town Hall HX7 7BY.
Friday 30 June: 7pm, City Books, Ropetackle arts centre, High St, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.
Sunday 13 August: 5pm, Edinburgh books festival.
Monday 14 August: 1.30pm, Edinburgh book festival, Writing the City.
Friday 29 September: 7.30pm, Marlborough literary festival.
Friday 6 October: Foyles event with Iain Sinclair, 6th floor, Foyles Charing Cross.
Sunday 8 October: Hull central library, 7.30pm.
Tuesday 10 October: Manchester literature festival.
20 years in solitary confinement
Will Self is going to be giving a lecture at Brunel University London on March 16 at 5.30pm on the relationship between isolation and the novel. Could it be, he wonders, that the novel is the defining art form of the singular and unitary consciousness as self-conceived? If so, in a world in which we’re always connected, will there be enough isolation to provide its psychic substratum? Tickets are free but you will need to register here.
Selling space – Britain’s public spaces going private
Will Self was on Channel 4 News this evening, talking about the privatisation of public space. He’ll be at the Space Probe Alpha event tomorrow at Potters Fields Park in London. The event is free and starts at midday. For more details visit their Facebook page here.
Book Slam Samuel Pepys special
Will Self is going to be reading a specially commissioned piece in the spirit of Pepys at a special, themed Book Slam at the National Maritime Museum, London on Friday January 29. Tickets: £6 event/ £12 including exhibition ticket. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start.
October and November appearances
9 October: Royal Academy, An evening of short stories with Will Self in partnership with Pin Drop.
14 October: In conversation with Bruce Robinson – Looking for Jack the Ripper, Guardian Live event, St Leonards Shoreditch Church, 7pm.
16 October: Hillingdon literary festival, 6pm. An evening with Will Self.
23 October: An audience with Will Self, Great Hall, Blackheath Halls, 8pm.
4 November: Will Self in conversation with Max Saunders, 6.30pm, King’s College London. Free but booking required.
10 November: LRB bookshop, 7pm. Nicotine: Gregor Hens in conversation with Will Self.
11 November: The Inaugural JB Priestley Lecture, University of Huddersfield. Will Self on The Collateral Damage of Progress: War, Psychopathology and Technological Innovation. Free but booking required.
14 November: Hastings storytelling festival.
19 November: Will Self on JG Ballard and Future Cities, Festival of the Future City, Watershed, Bristol, 6pm. Will is also going to introduce a special preview screening of High-Rise, date/time TBC.
Doughnut festival
Will Self is the patron of the Architecture Foundation’s Doughnut festival at the University of Greenwich on 5 September, “A day long exploration of London’s rapidly transforming periphery” with Hanif Kureishi.
Melbourne writers festival events
Will Self will be attending three events at the Melbourne writers festival at the end of this month (28-30 August), on the death of the novel, the politics and pleasures of walking and the closing night address.
Will is also going to be taking part in this ABC book club recording at their studios in Melbourne with Jon Ronson on August 28 at 6.30pm.
New events spring and summer 2015
29 April: Magna Carta and Commemoration with Will Self, 7pm, United Reform Church, High Street, Egham.
1 May: An Audience with Will Self, 6pm, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton.
19 May: Defeating cancer: reasons to be hopeful, panel discussion, 6.30pm, Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1.
20 May: The Philosophy of Particle Physics, Bradford literature festival, Midland hotel, 7.30pm, £8.
2 June: Trois variations de traduction sur un texte inédit, Hôtel de Massa, 38 rue du Fbg-St-Jacques, 75014, Paris, 7.30pm.
7 June: Stoke Newington literary festival, 4pm, town hall, £10.
17 June: The Internet is not the answer: Andrew Keen in conversation with Will Self, 7pm, The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH.
8 July: Winchester festival.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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