Interviews - Will Self

Tuesday 17th of June saw the excellent arrival into Hull of the delightful satirical journalist and dryer than arrid anti-perspirant Will Self . The man himself graced around 250 eager punters at the Pave café bar on Princes Avenue at 6.45 p.m.. And guess who was lucky enough to have a prime seat by the stage window with the kronenbourg flowing effortlessly and the company in keep, divine?!.

As he read beautifully from his critically acclaimed new book, Dorian Mr. Self gently hypnotised the crowd into a desert island disc like tranquil state. 40 minutes on and I sat with the distinct feeling that we could have all listened for 40 more. Questions on contemporary art and Jim Moir followed with jollies from the rest of us and proceeded again with fantastic explanations from the literary God !. As you may have guessed I am an avid fan, so maybe I should apologise for my seemingly biased opinion of this gig now. Sorry.

At the routine book signing I was again fortunate enough to get my copy of Dorian signed, and I can tell you I was star struck!!! Literally stupid, 'h hhi ' I stammered 'yeah, to Carolyn please and could you personalise it for me?'. He drew a picture of a cheesefootball accompanied by 'will you marry me' in a speech bubble! I felt all weak at the knees to be rather lay, as earlier a comment on cheese footballs made to Will, called for me to express my love for the modified cheese snack to my friend. Bizarrely enough, Will overheard this while taking the question.

This led to a complete parody entailing me, marrying a cheese football, Pave occupants being my entourage and suffering a 'lack of satisfaction' on my wedding night!. It's great to think that one day I may tell future grandchildren of my excitement that many moons ago I was once the 'butt' if you like, of one of Will Self manifestation's at that groovy place on Princes Avenue !!. Carolyn Author. Email : Carolyn@thisisull.com

Photographs copyright  ©2003 , and courtesy of Anna Bean.

The book from which we listened so intently- Dorian, is an 'imitation' of the Oscar Wilde classic; Pictures of Dorian Gray. Accurately brought up to date with comparisons to the 80's AIDS epidemic and western society created vanity, this I hope will be a book that infiltrates the masses. Reviews Observer Review Complete Review Other books by Will Self under review Feeding Frenzy Junk Mail Buy it from Amazon Unofficial WebSite www.willself.org.uk

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