{"product_id":"brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-essays-joel-golby-paperback","title":"Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays -- Joel Golby, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e*National Bestseller*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard. --Russell Brand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double. --Caitlin Moran\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoel Golby's writing for \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Golby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525562771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2019 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Golby \u003c\/b\u003eis a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eVice, \u003c\/i\u003e where he is among the site's most read contributors. He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, Shortlist, \u003c\/i\u003e and the BBC. He's more of a cat than a dog man, but he see merits in both. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joel Golby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45671476789476,"sku":"9780525562771","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780525562771.jpg?v=1727448897","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-essays-joel-golby-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}