See, that sounds really good to me, as would Will Self in conversation (which he's great at).

I just don't think fiction's suited to performance; it's not really designed for it. One or two writers - William Burroughs was a good example - add something with their presence and delivery, but I think they have to be very first-person, self-mythologising guys who personify the exotic culture they write about.

Self aims more at detached satire with his fiction. It's not nakedly autobiographical, and doesn't aim to bring a marginalised or alien culture to life; it goes for the opposite effect usually - recasting damply suburban north London lives in grand and absurd circumstances. As he's said in recent interviews: he's an arch-conformist.