"Interview: Will Self"

This article appeared on EdinburghFestivals August of last year. The entire interview is conducted on a walk across London, something that Will Self does quite frequently. I found it quite interesting that he walks in order to be transgressive. He is placed in the category with "Situationsits" who used walking in order to declare their independence from the system. Will Self is a very strange individual and is quite passionate about many things like cities, walking, hating the Olympics, and being overly rational. The interviewee came as being in over her head and intimidated by Self. Throughout the interview Self repeatedly tells her that she should have brought a "waterproof" because it will rain and he "doesn't do wet." He focuses a lot of his attention on the rain and his dislike of being wet which was rather interesting. Self seems, from this interview, to be an obsessive and educated person, which leads him to be very crass.
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3062