Will Self is one of the most important British novelists of his
generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring
journalism as he is for his fiction. Now finally available in America,
Junk Mail is an original selection of pieces from Self's nonfiction
and journalism that will introduce American listeners to Self as a
literary journalist par excellence.
Animated by the scathing brilliance and unflinching determination to
walk the road less traveled, Junk Mail is an often-irreverent trawl
through a landscape of drugs, culture, art, literature, and current
events--topics Self illuminates with a keen and entirely original eye.
We follow Self into the operation of an upstanding crack dealer, behind
the myth of the "pragmatist" approach to drug legalization on the
streets of Amsterdam, and to lunch with Indian author Salman Rushdie.
Whether he is writing about bad-boy British artist Damien Hirst, how
literary renegade William Burroughs has changed our outlook on art and
intoxication, or what the current state of transsexuality has to say
about gender for all of us, this is a lively and necessary anthology
from one of the defining voices of our times.
