{"product_id":"brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-isbn-9780525562771","title":"Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant","description":"\u003cb\u003e*National Bestseller*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.\" --Russell Brand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double.\" --Caitlin Moran\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cb\u003e*A BBC Best Book of 2019 So Far*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seeing the byline ‘Joel Golby’ means you’re about to ungraciously snort with laughter in a public place. Golby is sharper at dissecting the madness of 21st century online existence than any other writer. Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double.” \u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eCaitlin Moran\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003ci\u003e How to Be a Woman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Famous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRussell Brand\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMy Booky Wook \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRecovery \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joel Golby is my favorite pop culture–obsessed nihilist...You’ll laugh, cry and probably be a bit weirded out.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Sharon Horgan\u003c\/b\u003e, co-creator of \u003ci\u003eCatastrophe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Using a blend of insightful self-deprecation and almost lovable braggadocio, Golby tackles subjects big and small with the same forensic thinking and enthusiasm… [He] is great at switching between the poignant and the absurd, observing life both with the wonder of a toddler who has just discovered where you hid the crayons and the confidence of the friend who tells you ‘I got this’ before attempting to fix your vacuum cleaner.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Kay, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A writer who can be funny and offhandedly profound at the same time…[Golby] sometimes feels like a kindred spirit to David Sedaris, but younger and more biting.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Golby, a British staff writer for \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, moves between dark wit and even darker emotion, often in the course of a single sentence…Consistently entertaining.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“With Golby we’re treated to two things at once: the pleasure of his wit and style as he ranges his themes, and a sustained, near-Swiftian satire on the very real and material challenges driven by the United Kingdom’s housing crisis…That Golby spins comedy gold from such a sorry state of affairs is testimony to how much we need a voice like his.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A millennial's answer to David Sedaris. No writer is funnier than Joel Golby.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dolly Alderton, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eEverything I Know About Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304594591973,"sku":"NP9780525562771","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525562771.jpg?v=1767723084","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-isbn-9780525562771","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}