{"id":538141,"date":"2026-04-18T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:39:08","slug":"the-true-confessions-of-will-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538141\/","title":{"rendered":"The true confessions of Will Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">I have known \ufeffSelf, off and on, since the \ufeff1990s, when I first encountered him on a rare visit to the Groucho \ufeffClub, where, surprisingly, he was hanging out with two members of the Bristol \ufefftrip-hop group\ufeff Massive Attack, having interviewed them for an article. Initially, I had him down as an intriguing, though tricky and temperamental character, but when my younger brother died in 2000, he was incredibly kind and solicitous, much more so than I had expected, given our fitful friendship. More recently, he lived on the same street as me in south London and we\u2019d cross paths from time to time, usually as he was walking his small dog to and from \ufeffKennington Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have known \ufeffSelf, off and on, since the \ufeff1990s, when I first encountered him on a rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,2580,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-538141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-interviews","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}