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Junk mail / Will Self.
Van Pelt Library PR6069.E3654 J86 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Self, Will.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Black Cat/Grove Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Will Self is one of the most important novelists of his generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring journalism as he is for his fiction. Junk Mail is an original selection of pieces from Self's nonfiction and journalism that will introduce American readers to Self as a literary journalist par excellence. An often irreverent trawl through a landscape of drugs, culture, art, literature, and current events, Junk Mail takes us into the operation of an upstanding crack dealer, inside the unusual society of California cryogenicists, and to sit-downs with people from Morrissey to iconic radical feminist Andrea Dworkin. Whether he is writing about bad boy British artist Damien Hirst, how literary renegade William Burroughs has changed our outlook on art and intoxication, or what the current state of transsexuality has to say about gender for all of us, this is a lively and necessary anthology from one of the defining voices of our times.
- Contents:
- New Crack City 1
- On Junky 8
- A Conversation with J. G. Ballard 23
- Martin Amis: The Misinformation 41
- Where Did I Go Wrong? 55
- Thomas Szasz: Shrinking from Psychiatry 59
- Self's London 64
- At the Mevlevi Festival 75
- The Red Centre 88
- A Little Cottage Industry 99
- Street Legal 116
- In the Holy Land 126
- Not a Great Decade to Be Jewish 134
- Bret Easton Ellis: The Rules of Repulsion 142
- High Fidelity / Nick Hornby 148
- Getting Away With It: Quentin Tarantino 155
- D'You Know What I Mean? 158
- The Lenders 168
- Bona Morrissey 172
- Vagabond: Marianne Faithfull 183
- Tracey Emin 192
- Damien Hirst: A Steady Iron-Hard Jet 201
- The Art of Sam Taylor-Wood Considered in Respect of the A3 Guildford Bypass, Summer 1996 210
- The ICEHotel 215
- Dealing with the Devil 222
- Head-Hunting for Eternity 236
- On Demolition 249
- Scab 252
- The Media Estate: Big Brother 255
- Wilde 262
- Andrea Dworkin: The Interview 266
- Perfidious Man 277
- The Book of Revelation 302.
- Notes:
- A collection of the author's nonfiction.
- ISBN:
- 0802170234
- OCLC:
- 64511195
- Publisher Number:
- 9780802170231
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