The Quiddity of Will Self has been reviewed by Robert Collins in the Times. Here is a link for those with access to content behind the Times paywall, and some highlights for those without…
Sam Mills, the author of this funny, inventive debut novel (she previously penned a series for young adults), has, apparently, been assured by Will Self that he won’t be suing her for creating a fictional world based on his brilliance as a novelist. There are plenty of other reasons, too, why Self should have warmed to Mills’s anarchic work, brimming as it is with so many Self-like elements: debauched sex acts, insanely powerful mind-altering drugs and grotesque gender reversals.
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An ingenious, energetic read, admirable for the verve and macabre imagination with which Mills pursues her quarry.
Sam Mills was also interviewed about her literary fascination with Will Self by Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4′s Open Book, alongside Rodge Glass, the author of Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs. The interview begins about 18 minutes in.
Here’s a link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dhdd9
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