num_pages: 304
description:  By the popular Vice contributor a collection of full-throated appreciations elaborate theories and unflinching recollectionsJoel 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.
language: English
title: Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
publisher: Anchor