A Pulpy Eyeless Balaclava: Will Self Interviewed
“Well the avant garde in Britain is just dead to the extent that it ever existed. But if you look at the Colony Club (the Soho drinking club which appears as the Plantation in Liver) at the time it was founded in the 1940’s you had a kind of time capsule of the future: it facilitated all day drinking, there was open display and acceptance of homosexuality, there was no taboo at all about swearing. None of this is transgressive anymore. It’s just modern life in Britain. And while things like homosexual liberation were needed and very much worth having, the same can’t really be said for saying ‘fuck’ in public or drinking all day.”
Jamie Kenny interviews Will Self for 3:AM.
Impossible Literature
Stephen Barber reads from his new book Artaud: Terminal Curses (Solar Books) at the Metaphysical Library of the Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1, with David Ellis, Richard Crow, Alaknanda Samarth, Louis Benassi and Angelo Madonna. Friday, 17 October, 7pm. Admission: £6.