Junk Mail Paperback – May 12, 2006

This brief collection of Will Self's journalism is mixed--essays range from brilliant to banal. Self has emerges has one of Britain's most interesting writers over the course of the last two decades, and this early collection is a little window into his immense gifts. I was particularly drawn to the piece about feminist Andrea Dworkin, in whom Will sees an underappreciated political voice. And yes, there is plenty to hear about drugs, Martin Amis, and his parents, each of which is probably better served in small doses.

These pieces, generally longer than those anthologized in the second volume of Self's journalism, Feeding Frenzy, are an entertaining bag focusing on the themes that dominated Self's early writing career - drugs, Martin Amis, drugs, contemporary cult culture, drugs, Motorway driving, American Psycho, more drugs. You get the picture. The style isn't as clean and honed as in his more mature non fiction, but the supreme mastery of the English language and all its rough texture is very much in evidence. Worth a read for Will Self non-fiction completists, but necessarily dated.

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