Hotel Hot Shower Restaurant; Will Self walks places and makes it sound like an act with purpose.

I don't know what the current state of affairs is in regard to Google's legal hurdles in its book scanning project, but I can state that their Authors@Google series should be considered great advertising for publishers. Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun (mixed feelings; not my market segment) and occasional, excellent BLDG Blog guest poster, pointed me at Will Self's Psychogeography lecture, which started the ball rolling. Then I watched this.











Now I've got three of his novels, one of which I just recently finished, and one volume of short stories. Though Great Apes wasn't a knockout title, for me, I'm not giving up on this one. He's got a much larger body of work than I'm used to seeing in a contemporary novelist. And these are too good to dismiss.



If only I could do my radio show like that! Alas, if Pilkington and Self represent competing impulses, vying shoulder-crouched whisperers, Karl tends to take it when we hit record.