Will Self - Walking to Hollywood

http://www.bloomsbury.com/walkingtohollywood
Will Self talks about his book, Walking to Hollywood.

Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych, obsessive, satirical, elegiac, in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour.

Very Little is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematodes progress, as the worm of obsession with scale and packing and the stuff of our lives bores through a mind in extremesis. Walking to Hollywood is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. Spurn Head leads Self to a tormented sojourn with a madman whose house is sliding over the edge of a cliff, to a game of checkers with Death, and finally to an encounter with one of Swifts immortal Struldbruggs and a march through a tear in time itself.

In Walking to Hollywood Will Self pushes memoir to the limits of invention.

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[Omnilegence]

@Powell101 I've seen you post on a lot of Will Self's YouTube videos. :)

Does intelligence irritate you? Do you feel an irresistable esurience for the facility to comprehend and explore only to find a stellar-scale, bleak (growling too, if we're sticking with the whole 'hunger' theme) portal into your pitiful state of existance? Is that why you despise those who simply 'think out loud'?

Just curious.

[TheDensley7]

@Powell101 You're a nasty cunt, aren't you?

[Powell101]

Can he get cancer and die now, please?

[ph03n1xamb1t]

@Cholmeleian

surprisingly articulate?

[Cholmeleian]

@duran75, You seem to be suffering from excessive vocabulary syndrome, perhaps reading too many of Will's books!

[TheDensley7]

@Cholmeleian I'm looking forward to reading it, he is so under valued as an author.

[duran75]

Self is far less imposing in person that his media persona would suggest. There's a tangible appreciation for his audience who's interest and money sustains his writing. Self's countenance was devilishly unique, a diabolical alchemy of Postlethwaite and prehistoric magnificence. At once ugly and good looking, a veritable polymath exploring the depths that commercial literature dare no delve. Along with Ellroy, Self presents one of the most engrossing and honest encounters for readers.

[Cholmeleian]

@TheDensley7, I thought he was an interesting character, surprisingly articulate. I've always liked his persona so I thought he was a good bloke. A selection of his books were available at the venue, with a small discount on this new one.

[TheDensley7]

@Cholmeleian Cool, I'm going to see a reading of his in november, is he a nice bloke? Also, was the book for sale at the venue, and if so, how much ? Sorry for all the questions.

[andreaprodan]

Will Self is a cross between Peter Greenaway and Pete Townshend. Also:

See Fellini's stunning CASANOVA, and see another 'alias' of Mr Self in the role of the VERY debauched French nobleman who dresses up as a lecherous insect