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Will Self

Will Self
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes; The Book of Dave; How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in South London.


On the Pain of Reading Contemporary Writing When You Are a Contemporary Writer

Will Self Navigates the Tricky Territory Between Pity, Envy, and Rumors of Posterity
July 2, 2021  By Will Self
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Why Should You Read?

Will Self Wonders What the Hell We Think We’re Doing
April 22, 2021  By Will Self
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Will Self on What to Read: Canons to the Left, Canons to the Right, and Everything in Between

“As widely and as deeply as possible.”
February 19, 2021  By Will Self
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Will Self: How Should We Read?

In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age
January 14, 2021  By Will Self
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Will Self: Claire Foy Will Always Be My Queen

Watching the Royals on TV vs. Watching The Crown on TV
November 14, 2019  By Will Self
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Will Self Gets to the Bottom of the Brexit Pyramid Scheme

Just Another Day in Stoke
March 29, 2019  By Will Self
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Will Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

Modernism is Still the Best Way to Reflect Our World Back to Us
February 7, 2018  By Will Self
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