Will Self
Celebrated author of novels, short stories and non-fiction, Will Self contributes to many publications and regularly appears on radio and television. Fifty of his PsychoGeograpghy columns from The Independent have recently been collected in a new publication featuring art by Ralph Steadman.
Will Self: Joy Division and a Vesta curry
When I was 20 I tried to spend Christmas alone. It was a protest – of sorts – and also an actualisation of a deep and twisted disappointment in family, love, cosiness and cheer – all of which I held to be, in this the climactic period of my protracted adolescence, Yuletide lies and festering festive spirits.
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PsychoGeography: Journey's end
Saturday, 4 October 2008
In Ibiza the night proceeds according to plan: we set off in convoy, several cars full of us. True, we're going to a party in a swanky villa on the other side of the island, but while half our company are teenaged, the rest of us are past the age when we can do any raving – except against the dying of the light. Then: solid darkness, with headlights gouging it out to expose switchback roads and useless signs. The mobile phone calls begin: like the echo location of decadent bats. Some Ibizan parties can be found by following lizards stencilled on walls, others by pink balloons, but the turning for this one – or so we're assured through the ether – will be clear to us because of a strategically placed pile of three white phones.
Will Self: Holy cow!
Saturday, 27 September 2008
PsychoGeography: Once again the British cattle industry was near-annihilated
Will Self: Frozen music
Saturday, 20 September 2008
PsychoGeography: If Brutalism is heavy metal, then what of postmodernism? Can it be equated with drum’n’bass?
Will Self: Peak condition
Saturday, 13 September 2008
PsychoGeography: Which philosopher said that reading his fellow thinkers was like watching an ape play with a box of matches?
Will Self: A seer in Provence
Saturday, 6 September 2008
PsychoGeography: The upland villages of Provence all look like mini collapsed towers of Babel
Will Self: A real cliff hanger
Saturday, 30 August 2008
PsychoGeography: "See there, I reckon that'll be next to go, bit in 't middle went a few days ago."
Will Self: Slip slidin’away
Saturday, 23 August 2008
PsychoGeography: Beyond Bridlington things got – as Alice would say – curiouser and curiouser
Will Self: Some like it hot
Saturday, 16 August 2008
PsychoGeography: 'I’ve been pummelled in hammams from Fez to Cappadocia, emerging feeling like pizza dough'
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We seem to be in need of big emotion. Joy or grief, it doesn’t matter.
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Efforts to challenge an established order fail at least as often as they succeed.
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