Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant : essays / Joel Golby.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, a divison of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xvii, 282 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525562771
- 052556277X
- Essays. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 824.92 G617 | Available | 33111009134483 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
*National Bestseller*
"This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard." --Russell Brand
"Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double." --Caitlin Moran
Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit "Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead." In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord.
Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it.
Preface: hello, America! -- Things you only know if both your parents are dead -- The murderer who came to tea -- Twitch.TV -- Ribs -- List of fears, a list -- Adult size large -- Stories from the middle of the desert -- Swoosh -- P.C.M. -- Hot sauce capitalism -- A can of lager and a three-course meal -- That time I invented sitting down -- I have the monopoly -- Hallowe'en '96 -- I will never be as tough as pitbull -- The tao of dog piss -- Why 'Rocky IV' is the greatest ever Rocky Film and therefore by extension the greatest film in history, an imaginary TED talk -- Eyemask, a review -- I went to Barcelona and all I got was this handjob from a sex robot -- Hey: am I a leather jacket guy? -- All the fights I've lost -- At home, in the rain -- Moustache rider -- Running alongside the wagon.
"A collection of essays by the popular Vice contributor"-- Provided by publisher.