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Grey Area
Synopsis: These stories create a world of oddity superimposed on an ordinary world. They include six controllers running the whole of London life in all its minutiae; a nightmare tour of Soho where...
View ArticleGrey Area – Boston Phoenix Review
CW, March 1996 “Speaking on the phone from London (“inner suburbia”), Self says of his new neighborhood, “It’s pretty grim, but it’s my spiritual home,” before going on to describe, as if it were the...
View ArticleGrey Area And Other Stories – Amazon.co.uk Reader Reviews
3 reader reviews “This collection of short stories was so brilliant, it took my breath away. I agree with the last reviewer that Self’s stories are better than his novels. And I think of all his short...
View ArticleAt The Blackrose Netcafe
I’ve been working all morning on the stage adaptation of my 1993 short story ‘Scale’, which appeared first in the literary magazine Granta and latterly in my collection ‘Grey Area’. Ostensibly the tale...
View ArticleBekonscot model village
Fascinating article by Edwin Heathcote in the FT, who interviews Self about the appeal of miniature villages and also mentions Self’s short story Scale, in which the morphine-addicted protagonist lives...
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New Bloomsbury book covers
Greg Heinimann at Bloomsbury has created a series of new book covers for Will Self’s back catalogue to coincide with the paperback publication of Walking to Hollywood (below) in September. The new...
View ArticleHillingdon Literary Festival talk
Will Self’s talk from October 2018 at the Hillingdon Literary Festival, which begins with a reading from a section of his short story “Scale” (from Grey Area). Will discusses the writing of his books...
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