Will Self

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664 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Will Self · 29 May 2026 podcast

It's awful.

It's like first love.

It's never come back.

All I wanted was my name on the spine of a book.

I love literature passionately.

So passionately that for me, for somebody to write a book and have their name on it is more important than anything.

I am more impressed...

by somebody who's written a book than anyone.

Zach Bozner.

Yeah, he's now 93.

I know.

But he doesn't.

Have you finished it?

No.

My editor said, do you have to give the length of the penis of every male character immediately after their name throughout the chapter?

Maybe you can make the satiric point at the beginning.

I didn't deign to answer this because the point is that in our society, I happen to be a believer in Simone de Beauvoir.

And I believe gender is something you learn to perform.

And people who learn to perform masculinity are unbelievably conscious of the ephemeral symbol that they carry around with them of it.

So it's hugely important in that way.

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