Will Self's Blog, page 9

Trials and Tribulations: Will Self teaches Franz Kafka

Will presents a guide to the work and thought of Kafka for the How to Academy online tomorrow night at 6.30pm BST. Tickets are free but you can make a donation.

Great Apes, a play

JG Ballard’s prescience and the pandemic

Will is going to be on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning at 8.50am discussing JG Ballard and the coronavirus lockdown.

Will Self summer 2020 events

Will has a couple of appearances coming up, first at a Telepoetics event to discuss the theme of “Communications and Phone” at the Dana Research Centre and Library at the Science Museum in London on 27 May, 10times.com/telepoetics-symposium and then at the Idler Festival on 10-12 July.

Walking to Paris

Will has written about walking to Paris for his latest New European column, which can be read here.

The lessons of Little Britain Lake

Will’s latest New European column can be found here.

A Point of Views

You can now listen to a couple of Will’s recent A Point of Views for Radio 4 on the BBC, one on Hypocrisy, and the other on Sodcasting.

Will Self’s memoir, Will, published

Will Self’s memoir, Will, is published today by Viking. Duncan White in The Daily Telegraph said: “Self writes with the same propulsive prose that he has deployed in his masterful recent trilogy, Umbrella (2012), Shark (2014) and Phone (2017), replete with riffs, puns, recursive loops and characteristic ellipses and italics. Perhaps Will is just another Selfian character, subject to absolute authorial control, the fragmented derangement of his youth woven into an intricate and coherent whole by the mature author.”

The Independent said: “Will Self...

In conversation with Iggy Pop

Will Self in Conversation

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxbWfWqSreQ

From April 2019, talking about Umbrella, Shark and Phone and the writing process.