Will Self: Journalism (columns for Building Design)
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Word-processed copy as faxed to Building Design. Largely undated, although a few items have been annotated with a date (2000). Includes one autograph item written on headed paper from the Grand Hotel, Brighton (11 Apr 2000).
Will Self: Journalism (columns for American publications)
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Undated word-processed copy as faxed to the editors of several American publications: (1). Details (2 items); (2). GQ (4 items); (3). Spy (3 items); (4). George (1 item, 'Blair', together with unrelated autograph notes); (5). Stuff (5 items); (6). Detour (on Cate Blanchett, text and magazine cut...
Word-processed copy as submitted by fax. J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (expanded and annotated edition 1990) - faxed to Time Out (1 sheet). John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - faxed to Book Choice (2 sheets). William Burroughs, Junky (unexpurgated edition) - faxed to Sunday T...
Background research and notes for a talk given at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 14 March 2011, as part of the architecture discussion series 'Critic's Choice: London's Most Important Building'. The file includes: autograph and typed notes; pencil notes on postcards used as prompts for Self...
Will Self: Early drawings and unpublished cartoons
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Material filed together in 2006: (1). An early drawing, annotated: 'This is a picture of space drawn by William Self, aged 4¼ (Nov 1965)', together with other early drawings. Also, early drawings and writing by Jonathan Self including a small booklet (story and illustrations) entitled 'The China...
(1). Word-processed draft, pp. 1-299 (ending abruptly, draft incomplete). Single-sided, annotated throughout in pencil. (2). Word-processed draft (12 sheets), annotated in pencil, corresponding to published pp. 587-601 and pp. 609-614. The division between the two sets of draft pages occurs on ...
A 'digital essay' commissioned by the London Review of Books (2012): http://thespace.lrb.co.uk/about/ (1). ['Kafka's Wound'] - untitled word-processed draft, pp. 1-17 plus a following page (18 sheets). (2). Further word-processed draft, pp. 1-21, showing 'track changes' 2012-14 (21 sheets). In...
(1). Small exercise book [c. 1966] containing exercises in letter formation; drawing by Will Self and 'receipt' for Will from 'The Hamstead [sic] Gang' (Susannah Self and Jonathan Self); and single page from exercise book including the poem 'Winter' - 3rd Prize Camden Festival. (2). School repo...