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February 21, 2015
A Point of View: The power of fiction
To listen to Will Self talking about the power of fiction on Radio 4’s A Point of View, go here.
February 20, 2015
On location: trapped in Dubai airport
Dubai, 1.30am. I totter, unsteady as a newborn foal, along the gantry from the Emirates Airbus that drove me here. In the curvilinear spaces, the potted palms and the glass booths full of cigarette smoke I see this: the topological analogue of international jet travel. Here, time, which has been smeared across the heavens, is once more balled up into the simulacrum of place. I note this: the trail, waymarked by cairns of Johnnie Walker Black Label and Dior Addict,which S-bends its way through...
February 18, 2015
Will Self on bucket lists
To paraphrase Eighties art-rockers Talking Heads’ immortal lyrics: “And you may find yourself, staying in a 15-star hotel… And you may find yourself, horning cocaine from the jewelled navel of a nubile… And you may find yourself, in the most dramatic landscape in the world… And you may find yourself, behind the wheel of a high-performance automobile that’s just slain a deer… And you may find yourself, about to tuck into a dish of the potentially poisonous piscine delicacy, fugu… And you may w...
February 15, 2015
iAnna Russian Dolls
Amy Fellows, a final-year student in Illustration at Norwich NUA, was inspired by Will Self’s short story iAnna – which was written to mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 – to create a set of Russian Dolls looking at “themes of madness, technology and internal incarceration”. Here, she gives a brief description of what the piece is about:
“The work is a response to Will Self’s short story iAnna as part of my second year at NUA, where I’m currently doing a degree in Illustration. (We were brie...
February 13, 2015
A Point of View: The purpose of satire
Listen to Will Self’s latest A Point of View on Radio 4 at 8.50pm tonight here.
February 6, 2015
A Point of View: having children
You can listen to Will Self’s latest A Point of View on Radio 4 tonight at 8.50pm.
Why I hate ramekins
Will’s latest column in the New Statesman can be found here.
January 31, 2015
On English devolution
Listen to Will Self discussing English devolution with Billy Bragg on The World at One on Radio 4 here around the 36-minute mark.
January 22, 2015
Madness of crowds: Selfie sticks
“Earth hath not anything to show more fair;/Dull would he be of soul who could pass by/A sight so touching in its majesty:/A crowd of highly self-conscious beings behaving like a flock of sheep . . .”
Yes, yes! The year 2015 begins – as have previous years for readers of this column – with your fearless reporter standing on Westminster Bridge and contemplating the reckless conformity of our fellows. Recall: it was here, in the very omphalos of our noble nation, that I noted the lemming-like gl...
January 19, 2015
“Zack Busner Is A Lot Realer Than Me”
Will Self talks to DNAIndia.com’s Sonal Ved about his recurring character Zack Busner
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