An interview with Will Self in Stop Smiling Magazine from 2007, around the time of the publication of The Book of Dave.
How the Dead Live
You can find the Epilogue to How the Dead Live at the Guardian here.
The Final Approach
To watch the final part of The Secret Life of the Airport on BBC4, in which Will Self talks about Heathrow becoming a modernist ruin, among other things, go here.
Piccadillyland
The Daily Telegraph writes that travellers starting their journeys on the Piccadilly Line at Heathrow, Cockfosters or Uxbridge can currently pick up a free copy of Piccadillyland, a 120-page compilation of references to stations on the Tube line from more than 100 novels, including works by Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer and Will Self, part of the ongoing project Art on the Underground.
Edinburgh man
Will Self is going to be at the Edinburgh international book festival on Sunday August 23 2009, 6.30pm-7.30pm:
“Human anatomy, contemporary culture, seemingly parallel universes, nothing is beyond the scope of Will Self’s wildly fertile imagination. From the Kafkaesque nightmare of The Butt to the appetites, addictions and excesses of Liver, his take on the world around us is utterly unique. A master of the satirical and the grotesque.”
New Penguin paperbacks
To coincide with the paperback release of Liver, £7.99, Penguin is also publishing Dorian, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, and How the Dead Live, all at £8.99.
Joining the Jet Set
To watch the second part of the BBC’s The Secret Life of the Airport series, visit the iplayer here.
A Report to the Minister
Will Self’s story set in Bushy Park, London, for the Royal Parks series of short stories that take their inspiration from London’s Royal Parks, is now available here for £2.
In praise of industrial estates
“A couple of years ago, the writer Nick Royle and I decided that we would undertake the Three Peaks Challenge. We’d get another rambling writer to join us, raise sponsorship and give the proceeds to charity. However, it transpired that there were grave environmental concerns about the peaks. The sheer numbers of sponsored walkers clambering up Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon were leading to catastrophic erosion, denudation of flora, scaring off of fauna – not to mention the large quantities of plastic water bottles that were left behind by these charitable folk.
“In truth, I’ve never considered doing a sponsored walk since my age reached double digits, but I liked the idea of three writers/three peaks. I suppose it was naïve of me not to have realised the extent to which these eminences would’ve become a magnet for people who would never normally go walking. After all, I’ve been a walker all my life and I’ve noticed that the words ‘area of outstanding natural beauty’ attract Gore-tex the way sugar does wasps.”
Read the rest of Will Self’s article for Walk, the magazine of the Ramblers, here.
19.02.09
The Secret Life of the Airport: Preparing for Take Off
Will Self is one of the contributors to this BBC4 three-part series charting the development of Britain’s airports and how they have transformed the country.
The first part “takes us from the heady, imperial glamour of Britain’s first airport terminal at Croydon to the internationally agreed hieroglyphics on today’s taxiways and runways. Using rare archive and access to airports’ hidden corners, it reveals the intense local rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion for flight behind our airports.” It’s available on the BBC iplayer until July 6.
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