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Self Destruction Déjà Vu by Ian Hocking 'Very Cool Will Self : Great Apes : An interview with spike magazine http://www.spikemagazine.com/0597self.php Author Ads: Self Destruction Déjà Vu by Ian Hocking 'Very cool. A new voice in Search now! British SF.' Chris Mitchell finds out why Will Self doesn't give a monkeys Zoe Strachan: Spin Cycle Search now! "A gripping novel, full of twisted Will Self is the man who brought a whole new meaning pyschology and to the phrase "mile high club". Unless you were in a dark, covert obsessions; both murky and dazzling" - Uncut: apathy-induced coma during the run-up to the general Click here election, (or living in another country), you can't have failed to have seen Self's face plastered over the front 666STITCHES by page of every newspaper thanks to the fact that he RGSneddon A recrudescence of snorted heroin on John Major's election jet. Self was combined fables. Occult promptly sacked from his position at The Observer, was Horror. refused to be allowed anywhere near Tony Blair and became the subject of frothing tabloid editorials for days Great Apes Authors: Advertise your afterwards. (For those of you who want to know more, Will Self book here for $30 a month check out LM's report). Buy new or used at - reach 60,000 readers What's New On Spike: This episode ties in neatly with Self's already well-honed media persona - a Suicide: No former heroin addict, enfant terrible of See all books by Compromise - the London literary scene, the English Will Self at David Nobakht successor to American Gonzo journalist "...does a sterling job of chronicling Hunter S. Thompson, as well as being Suicide's rise over 30 years an acclaimed novelist obsessed with with a cast of thousands sexual perversity, gratuitous violence describing what a huge and lashings of Class A drugs, author of such works as impact listening to or seeing My Idea Of Fun and The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis. It's the band had on them..." Free New Books: easy to see why Self got the coverage he did: his CV is Continuity: Jason copy which virtually writes itself. Suhayl Saadi: McNamara, Tony Psychoraag Talbert interview However, being catapulted "...I see little point from cult fame to tabloid Go It Alone!: Bruce in attempting to shame is not something Self Judson mimic what's already been either desired or required. done very well by others. But Just In Tokyo - While it may lend an extra Justin Hall I mean, I didn't write edge to the publication of his Psychoraag thinking, Great Apes, "Halleluia! Now I'm going to new novel there's Vanishing Bangkok: write the first Asian Scottish no room for accusations of the Surat Osathanugrah novel!"..." election jet episode being a calculated publicity stunt; with Underground: Suelette Dreyfus Bret Easton Ellis: two children to support and a Lunar Park third on the way, chucking "...It's hard to Hacking Matters: Wil imagine a book away a £40,000 a year job in the hope of a few more McCarthy more book sales is not an option. However much the press self-referential, "knowing", want Self to be the new King Of Gonzo, he's not Kevin Kelly: New post-modern. Too clever by accepting the coke-encrusted crown. Self took the heroin Rules For The New half, it's asking for its glasses because he needed it, like a diabetic needs insulin. It was Economy to be pulled off and its head for medicinal rather than media purposes. thrust down the toilet. One Explorion: Free way it redeems itself is the Travel Books immense subtlety with which Talking on the eve of the general election which saw a it conveys the dizzying myriad Labour landslide, Self confesses to being "pretty twists of the author's gaze..." depressed about losing my job - I have a very strong Recently on work ethic and journalism gives me a hit of being a Splinters Roger Morris: working joe. It's a good way for me to feel ordinary - you A Spark goes out 2 of 9 4/17/2006 10:31 AM Will Self : Great Apes : An interview with spike magazine http://www.spikemagazine.com/0597self.php Taking get up and engage with the world, you work with people. Just a quick word of Comfort Unfortunately, I've had that rather taken out of my tribute to Muriel Spark, "...Yes, hands," he says, referring obliquely to recent events. who has died aged 88. The Prime of Miss Jean randomness is part of life; "There is a temptation after something like this to say Brodie was a great yes, it illustrates the "Well, fuck you, you fuckers" and to keep churning it book, and the film disconnection between form out." wasn't bad either. RIP. and meaning, but it has the [Read more] paradoxical effect of Self's need to remain a working reminding the reader that this journalist stems from the intensity of his Suicide: No is a work of fiction, that there Compromise: David is a writer puppeteering fictional writing; like his two great influences William Burroughs and JG Nobakht madly...." Suicide: No Ballard, it involves immersing himself Compromise - David Suhayl Saadi: within a completely self-constructed Nobakht "...does a Literary Censorship world. "It doesn't matter how committed sterling job of In The UK you are to your fictional work, it really chronicling Suicide's "...There has been rise over 30 years with virtually no does do strange things to your head if you're just concentrating on fiction," Self maintains. a cast of thousands mainstream print or physical describing what a huge coverage or exposure of any "Ultimately it makes people very arrogant even if they impact listening to or of my work in England, the are successful at it because it's so divorced from the real seeing the band had... country where actually I was world. It fills your head in that way - you're sitting there [Read more] born and the most powerful thinking 'How do I resolve a plot problem and and populous part of the The Blogs That Bind United Kingdom. At times, it thematically embrace all of western culture', and someone else is talking about how they couldn't get the Blogs - everyone's at feels as though I and my work it. Good job too. have been blacklisted..." widget off the production line that morning. You can't Novelist Roger Morris link those two worlds." has his own blog where he discusses It's Self's acute connection to Ian's recent review of reality that allows him to parody Taking Comfort; Ian is it so mercilessly in his writing. playing about with Great Apes functions on the Amazon's new promo blog feature for.... premise that its protagonist [Read more] Simon Dykes awakes one morning to find the world has The joys of irretrievably changed; everyone, schadenfreude from his girlfriend to his Hands up who cheered psychiatrist, has transmogrified when Keith from into a chimpanzee. Lytham lost £££ on Who Wants to Be a Unsurprisingly, Dykes goes humanshit (groan) and Self Millionaire just now? follows through the ramifications of his story with The question for masterful chimpunity (groan again). Self squarely £32,000: "Which classifies himself as a satirist, feeding off the tradition of British playwright won Jonathan Swift - who he considers "the satirist's the 2005 Nobel Prize Shakespeare" - and the Enlightenment's fascination with for Literature?". The o.. the arrival of the first chimpanzees in Europe in 1699. [Read more] "People understood intuitively at that point that to have Back of the net an animal that was close to human but not human threw Brian into turmoil a whole set of categories about cosmology Did anyone else see and the Chain of Being," he explains. "Swift was the first Football Focus at of a long line of satirists in the eighteenth century to have lunchtime? I'm sure they used the ape fantasies and construct ape worlds; there's a Dutch wonderful new single version of it, a German version - it became a very by Scotland's finest enduring theme. So I'm not so much writing in the Camera Obscura for tradition of Swift as standing this long tradition of ape their backing music. If fantasies on its head." I'm right, the song was I Love My Jean, a.... [Read more] 3 of 9 4/17/2006 10:31 AM Will Self : Great Apes : An interview with spike magazine http://www.spikemagazine.com/0597self.php Self's self-awareness of his own intellectual history and the writers to who have shaped his own work has been intensified by his dual role as both novelist and journalist, putting him in the strange position of regularly coming face to face with buy uk sex toys online his own literary heroes. But he's ambivalent about the value of such encounters: "Without being blasé it's not something that appeals to me particularly. I went to interview Ballard for a 1000 word piece for the Standard and wound up talking to him for 4 hours. I really admire his work and had the fantastic, incredible bonus of finding out that he really liked my work too. But that was that. I don't think we felt the need to meet each other ever again for the rest of our lives, although Ballard said, 'If people like you had been around in the 60s, I would have got out more, but now it's too late!' which I thought was sweet.
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