Will Self (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Will Self" in English language version.

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"Living Will". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2007.

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Bloom, Harold (2002). Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds. New York: Warner Books. p. 648. ISBN 0-446-69129-1. There are a few affinities, except perhaps with the admirable Antonia Byatt, in the generation after: novelists I also now admire, like Will Self, Peter Ackroyd, and John Banville.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 8^th place; English: 10^th place)

bbc.co.uk

"Will Self". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
"Will Self's Great British Bus Journey". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
"Self Drives". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 25 October 2025. Will Self goes on a long road trip.
"BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, A New Anti-Semitism". BBC.

news.bbc.co.uk

"Why are we so grumpy?". 5 January 2005 – via news.bbc.co.uk.

bbc.com (Global: 20^th place; English: 30^th place)

"BBC Audio > Feedback > A Point of View. BBC Sounds overseas. Lockdown's Legacy". www.bbc.com. 2 April 2025. Retrieved 25 October 2025. A Point of View has officially left the airwaves after a long run on BBC Radio 4, with Howard Jacobsen writing and presenting the final episode.

bl.uk (Global: 1,234^th place; English: 779^th place)

blogs.bl.uk

"Will Self's archive acquired by the British Library - English and Drama blog". blogs.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

searcharchives.bl.uk

The Papers of Will Self, archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 13 May 2020

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

M. Hunter Hayes (2007). Understanding Will Self. University of South Carolina Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-57003-675-0.

brunel.ac.uk (Global: low place; English: 8,260^th place)

- "Will Self, Professor of Contemporary Thought". Brunel University London. 27 March 2015. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2025. Will Self's research mostly takes the form of his own fictional work and literary essay writing
- Brunel University. "Will Self". brunel.ac.uk.

debretts.com (Global: 3,648^th place; English: 2,159^th place)

"Will Self, Esq Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Will Self, Esq Profile".

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Finney, Brian (2001). "Will Self's Transgressive Fictions". Postmodern Culture. 11 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2001.0015. ISSN 1053-1920. S2CID 144272638.
Finney, Brian (May 2001). "Will Self's Transgressive Fictions". Postmodern Culture. 11 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2001.0015. S2CID 144272638.

economist.com (Global: 254^th place; English: 236^th place)

"Opening up and inside out". The Economist. 6 September 2012.

ft.com (Global: 210^th place; English: 157^th place)

- "Will Self's fantasy dinner party". Financial Times. 22 January 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023. a vegetarian feast served by Margaret Thatcher The writer conjures a meal cooked by Keith Floyd and eaten by Eddy Grant and his old friend Melanie Phillips — what's not to like? David Hume, Martina Topley-Bird, and Molly Bloom

ghostarchive.org (Global: 32^nd place; English: 21^st place)

Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Jeremy Corbyn: Will Self and John McTernan debate". Channel 4 News. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2017.

independent.co.uk (Global: 36^th place; English: 33^rd place)

Thorne, Matt (11 August 2012). "Umbrella, By Will Self". The Independent. London.
"You ask the questions: Will Self". The Independent. London. 6 June 2001.^{[dead link]}
"Curiouser and curiouser". The Independent. 11 August 2001.
Tom Foot (18 August 2013). "Questioned for taking a country walk with his son?: Even Will Self couldn't make it up Dismayed author blames fear of paedophiles for warping attitudes". The Independent. London. Retrieved 19 August 2013.

interviewmagazine.com (Global: 797^th place; English: 525^th place)

John Freedman (11 April 2014). "Will Self". Interview Magazine.
"Will Self". Interview Magazine. 3 November 2014.

jhu.edu (Global: 699^th place; English: 479^th place)

muse.jhu.edu

Finney, Brian (2001). "Will Self's Transgressive Fictions". Postmodern Culture. 11 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2001.0015. ISSN 1053-1920. S2CID 144272638.

lareviewofbooks.org (Global: 4,846^th place; English: 2,761^st place)

Hamilton, Ben. "A Merry Dance: Will Self Takes on Modernism". Los Angeles Review of Books.

lesinrocks.com (Global: 1,104^th place; English: 5,203^rd place)

"auteur: Nelly Kaprièlian". Les Inrocks (in French).
"auteur: Will Self". Les Inrocks (in French).

londonlovesbusiness.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Vinter, Robyn; Cockburn, Harry (7 January 2016). "All these celebrity Jeremy Corbyn fans might surprise you". London Loves Business. Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.

lrb.co.uk (Global: 3,577^th place; English: 2,212^th place)

thespace.lrb.co.uk

"Kafka's Wound". Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.

lrb.co.uk

"Diary". London Review of Books. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.

newstatesman.com (Global: 1,108^th place; English: 661^st place)

Self, Will (1 May 2015). "Will Self: I was no fan of New Labour – but Brexit requires original thinking Corbyn can't provide". New Statesman. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
"Will Self: Who are you to call me Jewish?". www.newstatesman.com. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Will Self (10 September 2006). "Céline's Dark Journey". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
"He Read His Dying Mother's Diaries, and Spun Them Into a Novel". The New York Times. 16 September 2024. Archived from the original on 16 September 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
McGrath, Charles (7 December 2006). "Will Self's slow walk into downtown New York". The New York Times.

ox.ac.uk (Global: 613^th place; English: 456^th place)

solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

"Search result showing location of Oxford Strumpet in Bodleian Library". Bodleian Library. Retrieved 9 February 2021.

prospectmagazine.co.uk (Global: 8,502^nd place; English: 5,704^th place)

"The Book of Jobs". prospectmagazine.co.uk.
Self, Will. "Why the monarchy must go".

radiotimes.com (Global: 185^th place; English: 123^rd place)

Dowell, Ben. "Will Self backs out of talks to be Radio 4's writer-in-residence". Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.

semanticscholar.org (Global: 11^th place; English: 8^th place)

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Finney, Brian (2001). "Will Self's Transgressive Fictions". Postmodern Culture. 11 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2001.0015. ISSN 1053-1920. S2CID 144272638.
Finney, Brian (May 2001). "Will Self's Transgressive Fictions". Postmodern Culture. 11 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2001.0015. S2CID 144272638.

specialistspeakers.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Specialist Speakers Profile. "Will Self". specialistspeakers.com.

standard.co.uk (Global: 238^th place; English: 159^th place)

Howie, Michael; Rivlin, Jack; Martin, Emer (24 May 2012). "Author Will Self flees with his children after roof of £1million". The Evening Standard.
"I'm a diehard Leftie but my son is going to private school". 14 October 2008.

tatler.com (Global: 2,222^nd place; English: 1,267^th place)

"Will Self". Tatler. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.

thedailybeast.com (Global: 330^th place; English: 222^nd place)

Charney, Noah (9 January 2013). "Will Self: How I Write". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

theguardian.com (Global: 12^th place; English: 11^th place)

Dowell, Ben (18 January 2013). "Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
Dowell, Ben (3 April 2009). "Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer line up new series of Shooting Stars". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
Dowell, Ben. "Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
"'Would that all journeys were on foot': writers on the joy of walking". The Guardian. 18 September 2018.
Kinson, Sarah (9 May 2007). "Books, Culture, Will Self (Author)". The Guardian. London.
Self, Will (15 June 2008). "Biography (Books genre), Books, Culture". The Guardian. London.
Self, Will (14 November 2009). "My hero JG Ballard by Will Self". The Guardian.
Barker, Nicola; Moorcock, Michael; Roberts, and Adam (27 August 2017). "The Philip K Dick book I love most…". The Observer.
Wroe, Nicholas (2 June 2001). "Addicted to transmogrification". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 February 2007.
"Will Self (Author), Books, Culture". The Guardian. London. 22 July 2008.
Alison Flood (8 July 2014). "Authors' incomes collapse to 'abject' levels". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
Self, Will (12 November 2016). "Will Self: can a road trip make up for my disgraceful behaviour?". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
Curry, Stephen (9 December 2015). "Will Self's forceful search for the genius behind a scientific giant". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
McCrum, Robert (29 September 2002). "Interview: Will Self". The Observer.
Guardian Staff (22 July 2008). "Will Self". The Guardian.
Self, Will (17 August 2018). "Will Self: 'I read as many as 50 books at once'". The Guardian.
Taylor, Kate (21 February 2005). "'Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen ... '". The Guardian.
Self, Will (1 May 2015). "Will Self: Oscar Wilde, champagne socialism and why I'm voting Labour". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
Mullan, John (15 June 2007). "Guardian book club: Will Self". The Guardian. London.
"Will Self: The trouble with my blood". TheGuardian.com. 21 October 2011.
Self, Will (14 April 2017). "Call me British, American, Jewish, Londoner – just don't call me patriotic | Will Self". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
Self, Will (6 November 2014). "How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand and Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philo-Semite by Julie Burchill – review". The Guardian.
Azad, Bharat (12 November 2007). "Books". The Guardian. London.

theneweuropean.co.uk (Global: low place; English: 8,221^st place)

Self, Will (2 January 2024). "Multicultural Man: Oh, and I have cancer". The New European. Retrieved 28 January 2024.

theparisreview.org (Global: 3,741^st place; English: 2,283^rd place)

Jacques Testard (9 August 2012). "Larger Than Life: An Interview With Will Self". The Paris Review.
"author: Nelly Kaprielian". The Paris Review. Retrieved 25 October 2025.

thetimes.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Appleyard, Bryan (21 May 2017). "Calling the modern world to account". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 25 October 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
"Will Self accused of cruelty in divorce row with Deborah Orr". The Times. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
Marriott, James (9 February 2019). "What I've learnt: Will Self". thetimes.com. Retrieved 25 October 2025.

visualthesaurus.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

“In Defense of Harding the Bloviator”, Ben Zimmer, Word Routes: Exploring the Pathways of our Lexicon, July 29, 2010; visualthesaurus.com

waikato.ac.nz (Global: low place; English: low place)

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Green, Andrew (September 2013). "London in space and time: Peter Ackroyd and Will Self". English Teaching: Practice and Critique. 12 (2). Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2025. PDF

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Appleyard, Bryan (21 May 2017). "Calling the modern world to account". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 25 October 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- "Will Self, Professor of Contemporary Thought". Brunel University London. 27 March 2015. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2025. Will Self's research mostly takes the form of his own fictional work and literary essay writing
- Green, Andrew (September 2013). "London in space and time: Peter Ackroyd and Will Self". English Teaching: Practice and Critique. 12 (2). Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2025. PDF
- Dowell, Ben. "Will Self backs out of talks to be Radio 4's writer-in-residence". Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- "Living Will". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2007.
- "Will Self accused of cruelty in divorce row with Deborah Orr". The Times. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- "Kafka's Wound". Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Jeremy Corbyn: Will Self and John McTernan debate". Channel 4 News. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- Vinter, Robyn; Cockburn, Harry (7 January 2016). "All these celebrity Jeremy Corbyn fans might surprise you". London Loves Business. Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- "He Read His Dying Mother's Diaries, and Spun Them Into a Novel". The New York Times. 16 September 2024. Archived from the original on 16 September 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- "Will Self". Tatler. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- "Will Self: Who are you to call me Jewish?". www.newstatesman.com. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- "Will Self's archive acquired by the British Library - English and Drama blog". blogs.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- Cataloguing the Will Self Archive English and Drama Blog, British Library

webmd.com (Global: 1,169^th place; English: 1,075^th place)

"When Polycythemia Vera Turns Into Another Cancer". Retrieved 28 January 2024.

will-self.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Self, Will (2 January 2009). "Shooting Stars". Will Self.
Self, Will (February 2017). "A Point of View". Will Self. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
Self, Will. "Radio and Audio Archives". Will Self. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
M, Chris (12 January 2006). "Alasdair Gray: An Introduction". Will Self.

worldcat.org (Global: 5^th place; English: 5^th place)

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Finney, Brian (2001). "Will Self's Transgressive Fictions". Postmodern Culture. 11 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2001.0015. ISSN 1053-1920. S2CID 144272638.

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Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Jeremy Corbyn: Will Self and John McTernan debate". Channel 4 News. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2017.

Will Self (English Wikipedia)

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