Will Self | Granta Magazine

Will Self

Will Self is the author of numerous novels, including The Book of Dave. In 1993 he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Max Porter reads Will Self

Max Porter & Will Self

In this episode of the podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 129 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129 padlock

Key Stroke

Will Self

Striking the keys of the same typewriter that once sat under J.G. Ballard’s fingers, Will Self reimagines the legendary writer’s last days.

In Conversation | Issue 129
In Conversation | Issue 129

Will Self & Mark Doty | Podcast

Mark Doty & Will Self

Will Self and Mark Doty's discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing about blood, the surprising relationship between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman and the nature of addiction.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock

False Blood

Will Self

‘The only real universals are that we all live – and, of course, we all must die.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 107
Essays & Memoir | Issue 107

The Mind-Child: Remembering J.G. Ballard

Will Self

‘I had been struggling – as every wannabe writer should – with what it was that I could conceivably write.’

Will Self on the influence of J.G. Ballard.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock

Subject+Object: The fount of all smoky wisdom

Will Self

‘To explain what I now feel for the pipe I must paraphrase the writer Robert Stone’s remarks on hard drugs: I admire it from afar.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock

Big Dome

Will Self

‘I began to conceive of the city itself as a kind of loving parent, vast but womb-like and surmounted by an overarching dome.’

Fiction | Issue 104 padlock
Fiction | Issue 104 padlock

Scale

Will Self

‘Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.‘

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