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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant, essays, Joel Golby

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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant, essays, Joel Golby

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eng

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essays

Main title

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant

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Joel Golby

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essays

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Preface: hello, America! -- Things you only know if both your parents are dead -- The murderer who came to tea -- Twitch dot 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 -- Party hard -- 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

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