In his latest tome, Will Self tackles the travel book from a different angle. Wandering through locales as far flung as Hollywood and East Yorkshire he has as much to say about the act of walking, and then writing about it, as about the actual places he visits. Here he reflects on one of the strangest undertakings in a career already larded with odd-ball moments

Interview: 2010-11-15

On the eve of the publication of his latest novel, Will Self joins Hot Press for a walk in the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Interview: 2008-05-17

Over the past decade or so, Will Self has remained one of the most fascinating, infuriating and downright provocative writers in contemporary literature. Now, following the publication of his typically inventive and challenging new book, Dr Mukti and other Tales of Woe, the perennially combative author gives Hot Press the low-down on the perils of psychiatry, his relationship with ultra-controversial artist Sebastian Horsley, and that memorable showdown with Paul Merton on Room 101.

Interview: 2004-02-20