Will Self: Journalism (various restaurant reviews, as submitted to the Observer)
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Various undated restaurant reviews, in the form of word-processed documents as submitted by fax for publication (usually indicated as the Observer): Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton, Oxford (6 sheets); Elena's L'Etoile, Charlotte Street, London (5 sheets); Franco's, Enniskillen, Northern...
Will Self: Journalism (various restaurant reviews, as submitted to the Observer)
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Various undated restaurant reviews, in the form of word-processed documents as submitted by fax for publication (usually indicated as the Observer): La Fontana, Birley Street, Blackpool (5 sheets); Sonia's Café, Latimer Road, London (6 sheets); Rita's Samosa Centre, Southall, Middlesex (4 sheets...
(1). 'My Daddy and Rothko'. Undated humorous account of visit to an exhibition at the Tate Gallery (three identical texts: 6 + 6 + 6 sheets). The article is referred to in a letter (3 May 1989) from Peter Self to Will Self (in Add MS 89203/2/3/23). (2). Review of Jean-Pierre Goubert, The Conquest...
Word-processed text, usually undated, as submitted by fax to the editor: (1). Book reviews: Review of Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed (1993). 7 sheets. Review of Anthony Julius, T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995). 6 sheets. Review of Greil Marcus, The Dustbin of History (199...
Word-processed text, as submitted by fax to The New Statesman. Most texts are not dated and are without titles. (1). Book reviews of the following publications: A. M. Homes, The End of Alice; Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow; Graham Robb, Rimbaud; Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography; Patrick ...
Will Self: Journalism (columns for Independent on Sunday)
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1. Television reviews: Word-processed texts, as submitted. Most reviews have been dated by Self by hand (nearly all are 2000). One review is annotated 'Observer TV'. 2. Other items, as submitted: 'Will Self joins The Independent on Sunday' (annotated - not in Self's hand - as 'not published'). ...
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...