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Will Self events, winter 2019

9 November: Launch of Will Self’s new book, Will, at the Southbank Centre, London, 7.30pm, with chair Alex Clark. Details are here.

15 November: The Brighthelm Centre, Brighton, 7pm. Details here.

24 November: Penguin Live/The Quays, Manchester. Details to follow here. Tickets will be released on Friday.

Hillingdon Literary Festival talk

Will Self’s talk from October 2018 at the Hillingdon Literary Festival, which begins with a reading from a section of his short story “Scale” (from Grey Area). Will discusses the writing of his books Walking to Hollywood and Phone, the importance of the M40 in his fiction, pretending to be British, the Iraq war and a little about his new memoir, Will, which is due to be published in November.

Protecting Digital Privacy lecture at Brunel University

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WowFest19 keynote speech

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This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis

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Will features quite heavily in this rather good 1999 documentary about Bret Easton Ellis.

A liberal interpretation

‘Not a day goes by without further frontline despatches from the war between our established liberal ideology and the strange new realities that body-forth from the future. Taking today — the one on which I sat down to write this article — as representative, I found in my morning bulletins a report about how the US Constitution’s vaunted separation of powers — personified by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — was leading inexorably to the indictment, and hence removal, of “rogue” President Dona...

A Point of View: Parity of Esteem

You can listen to Will’s recent Point of View on Radio 4 here, in which he talks about the disturbing story of what happened to a friend, recently detained in a London psychiatric hospital.

Chandos House sponsored abseil with Will Self and Russell Brand

Please do go along to support the Chandos House treatment for addiction sponsored abseil tomorrow from 11am to 5pm at Clifton Downs, Bristol if you can. The details are on their Facebook page here and you can donate here.

Portrait Of Britain

Will Self has written the introduction to the forthcoming Portrait Of Britain, “200 photographs that capture the face of a changing nation”. The book is published on September 6th. You can see preview images, read an excerpt of Will’s introduction and pre-order on the website of the book’s publisher, Hoxton Mini Press.

Is the left dead?

Will is giving a Funzing talk entitled “Is the left dead?” at The Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, London, SW1P 3DW on Tuesday 31 July, from 6.45pm to 8.45pm. “With the far-right on the rise and the left in disarray, what does the future hold for socialism?” For more details and to book tickets, visit uk.funzing.com.