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isolar76.bsky.social
Not everyone in #ReformUK is a racist but all the racists flock to ReformUK #willself
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
madeleineodea.bsky.social
Contemplating my 2025 bookstack 😃📚 #booksky
#HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China
January 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
jigglybitch.bsky.social
I'm thinking "neutral sensible gender (masculine)" will/willself pronouns
May 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
riodylan.bsky.social
This is sad news. It seems like so many people are being diagnosed with rare cancers. My dad was just diagnosed with a rare blood cancer - first cancer case on either side of my family as far back as anyone can recall. Makes you wonder.

#WillSelf #writers #cancer
March 24, 2026 at 11:37 AM
calvinandhobbes69.bsky.social
Well said #WillSelf #JasonArday
August 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism."

✒ #WillSelf, English novelist, is 64 today. #Literature
September 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
nevereverdave.bsky.social
This brief early amuse-bouche caught my eye from Mr #WillSelf on that writer's trajectory.

willself1.substack.com/p/2087493164...
Extract of "SITREP' Situation Report by Mr Will Self Illustrating they Graham Linehan trajectory as he perceives it. Much in keeping with a great many of us. "Among Jordan Peterson’s self-styled ‘12 Rules for Life’ is his notorious injunction to set your house in perfect order before criticising the world. What a house constitutes, quite as much as a rule, can vary. I well remember asking one of my younger acquaintances why he was having his child baptised as a Catholic, given he himself manifestly didn’t believe in the Ten Commandments; he thought for a fraction of a second, before replying by channelling Ireland’s most famous spiritual leader, the hebephrenic Father Dougal: ‘They’re just guidelines.’ Given the creator of the show in which this moral latitudinarianism was proposed—and one may assume the writer of these lines—has gone on to be a social media addict, and a crazed bigot, it would seem Grahan Lineham, at least, is no hypocrite. But the Daily Telegraph should know: it’s been drifting progressively rightwards for years now, tacking into anfractuous and emphatically non-ideological waters, there to cruise about, all its paper sails set, so as to pick up whatever available afflatus there is—racist zephyrs, transphobic gusts, misogynist mistrals, even fascistic fohns—that might be required so as to propel its shareholders into a beneficent future of ‘adaptation’ to our warming world. So it’s no surprise that under its new German proprietor and with jejeune Associate Comment Editor Harry Howard apparently officiating, this Fighting Temeraire of journalism has invited the Canadian psychologist to set the atmosphere in order for us. Peterson’s article, ‘Climate change catastrophism is a Leftist weapon to destroy capitalism’, begins with air conditioning.
August 24, 2026 at 8:24 AM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
The Quantity Theory of Morality by #WillSelf #BookReview – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation #satire

35 years on from his collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire
Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2026 at 9:33 AM
sskeel.bsky.social
Writer #WillSelf is a riot. Take this description of an #Anglican church out of his #book Liver: "with their tepid air of state assisted piety". And the #Catholic : "musty battlefields where lust and repression fought it out, in the process of torturing wooden effigies". #writingcommunity #writing
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
nevereverdave.bsky.social
Couple of pieces on a Professor's awful hounding.

Ms @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Digital Lynching - excellent 👌 clear!

broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

Mr #WillSelf Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media: Truly; no corner left without illumination!

willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...
A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
broligarchy.substack.com
August 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
rivalimage.bsky.social
Once had beer with #WillSelf at ANU bar in OZ. Someone grabbed me to sit with him. I didn’t know of him then (I was young). I was told to speak & listen. He said “yes, very good, but you must work hard”. A few years later I loved Great Apes & the rest! #writing

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire
Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
nevereverdave.bsky.social
Mr #WillSelf and his view of the #Literary World around him.

peaceableland.substack.com/p/the-passio...
[Will] Self is enraged by the literary world. JK Rowling is a “dreadful fucking writer” who courts controversy in her “Harry Potter castle of money”, afraid of “a straw man with a giant cock who’s going to fuck up everybody’s arguments and moral reasoning”. Bernardine Evaristo is “the woman who said life’s too short to read Ulysses” and a “shit writer.” Giving her the Booker “wasn’t the thing we needed to do” for Britain to “live up to its imperial past”. Irvine Welsh and Hugh Grant campaigning for youth literacy were “Johnny-come-latelies. I’ve been fucking campaigning on this from the get-go.” He asks how many books I’ve read. About 400 since 2020 is “Not enough. By the time I was your age, I’d read 4,000.”
May 17, 2026 at 12:52 PM
chrisrivers50.bsky.social
Will Self - a must-read: extract
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September 13, 2026 at 9:19 AM
jonnykerux.bsky.social
Film this book: The Book of Dave by #WillSelf. His top novel. Britain is at its best when transformed in an imagined future. The lead role of the cabbie whose paranoid ravings form the scripture of a religion is the part #LawrenceFox was born to play.

#BritainsFuture #apocalypticliterature #scifi
August 7, 2026 at 11:19 AM
radiantvolumes.bsky.social
Will Self – Will (2019). Third-person recollections of Self’s drug-addict years. It’s surreal, impressionistic and darkly funny, with absurd wordplay, snatches of song lyrics and wide-ranging free-association. The final section, about his po-faced rehab treatment, is especially engrossing. #WillSelf
July 4, 2026 at 8:32 AM
jfhayes.bsky.social
'"Care in the community" ... One of the many deranging oxymorons of modern discourse' from #WillSelf
November 21, 2024 at 3:56 PM
twitter.bitoclass.uk
Last #therestisnoise day-pass talk for today is Will Self on Kafka. Will Self. On Kafka. This may not be easily tweetable. #WillSelf #Kafka
November 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
kmog.bsky.social
Will Self: Fiction Top Five. New post up on Substack.

www.want-to-tell-you.com/p/will-self-...

#want-to-tell-you #substack #willself
Will Self: Fiction Top Five
In this top five, I explore the biting fictional works of writer Will Self.
www.want-to-tell-you.com
March 10, 2026 at 1:48 PM
ladygeeke.bsky.social
Listening to #willself on #apointofview reminded of Inigo Montoya: You use that word a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means.
November 21, 2024 at 9:37 PM
sskeel.bsky.social
This man is WILD! #willself rips out your funny bone and chews it to oblivion. Just keep a #dictionary on hand. Highly recommended. #books #blueskybooks #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
nevereverdave.bsky.social
“You see, the problem is, you’re not me. You want to be liked. You’re sentimental. I’m not you. I don’t want to be liked, and I’m not sentimental. OK?”

Very complex Mr #WillSelf was on #BBCLauraK this morning.

Good read:

peaceableland.substack.com/p/the-passio...
The passion of Will Self
The writer says his new book could be his last
peaceableland.substack.com
May 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM
jgood1.bsky.social
Next up. A lend from a friend. He said it was good, but he looked conflicted, so not sure what to expect 😆#willself
April 8, 2026 at 10:24 PM
johndseymour.bsky.social
Fascinating #Illuminated episode on Radio4. #WillSelf on reclusion.👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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January 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM