With Tom Hodgkinson. Ilfracombe Library The Candar, Ilfracombe, Devon EX34 9DS. Tel: 01271 862388. Monday 15 March, 6pm, £2 (including glass of wine).
With Tom Hodgkinson and Ukuleleric.
Whitstable Labour Club
Wednesday 24 March, 7.30pm, £6
Tom discusses parenting and real ales and plays the uke. The Rooms 33-35 Western Road, St Leonards-On-Sea, TN37 6DJ Thursday 25 March, 7pm 07786 686 786 Tickets £8 in advance, £10 on the door.
The launch of our Back to the Land issue will feature DJs, bar and Idler Cabaret. Rough Trade East Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL Friday 7 May, 6pm, Free
Tom discusses ukuleles, the Reformation and why he hates Facebook Broomhill Art Hotel, Muddiford, North Devon Tel: 01271 850262 Wednesday 12 May, 7pm
Tom Hodgkinson discusses the new Idler. Swindon Festival of Literature Thursday 13 May, Noon
GK Chesterton wrote: “We must go back to freedom or forward to slavery.” Tom Hodgkinson discusses this apparent paradox and argues that the old ways can lead us to liberty. UNCIVILISATION: The Dark Mountain Festival Royal International Pavilion Llangollen, LL20 8SW Saturday 29 — Sunday 30 May
Residential course with Tom and Permaculture teacher Graham Burnett. We will help you to create your own life afresh. Dial House, Essex shop@idler.co.uk for tickets. Friday 4 — Sunday 6 June, £150
Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon Friday 11 — Sunday 13 June, Free
Residential course with Permaculture teacher Graham Burnett Sustainability Centre, Hampshire Friday 9 — Sunday 11 July, £150
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This Little Piggie Stayed at Home
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THE CLOUDSPOTTER’S GUIDE by GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY
Gavin has been the creative director of the Idler for thirteen years, and his first book needs no introduction. Where Chris Yates loves to look down at the watery depths, Gavin likes to look up to the watery heights where the clouds play. His lovely fluffy book is a treat for mind and eye alike.
THE MYWAY CODE by DAN KIERAN AND IAN VINCE
Dan is the Idler’s deputy editor and Ian is well known to our readers for his Social Scrutiny forms. Their new book is a hilarious satire on our national obsession with signs and lines and rules and chevrons — all the absurd attempts to control road users that our bureaucrats dream up.
How Very Interesting: Peter Cook’s Universe And All That Surrounds It, by Paul Hamilton, Peter Gordon and Dan Kieran.
Compiled by Idler film editor Paul Hamilton and dep ed Dan, this is a wonderful collection of interviews with friends and collegaues of Peter Cook. How Very Interesting features anecdote and reminiscence from John Cooper Clarke, Will Self, John Lloyd, Auberon Waugh, Chris Morris and many more.
World’s Worst Jokes by Tony Husband
Tony Husband is well known to Idler readers as the creator of the Neville cartoon and compiler of the celebrity jokes page. Tony also contributes to Private Eye where he does the Yobs strip. Now he has collected together all the worst jokes he could find. And the result is very funny.
The new edition of the Idler is out today. As ever, it’s a stormer, and includes: an extract from DAN KIERAN’s new book, I Fought The Law; JAY GRIFFITHS on missionaries and cannibals; conversations with PROF RONALD HUTTON of Bristol University, expert on merriment, and GREEN of Scritti Pollitti; plus CORINNE MAIER on a trio of French anti-work filmmakers. We ask whether there is any point at all in going on anti-war protests or indeed going to university. And there’s writing from Penny Rimbaud, Jock Scot, Robert Twigger and Albert Cossery.
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The new 350 page Idler, a collection of radical essays by Alain De Botton, Penny Rimbaud, John Mitchinson, Jay Griffiths, Paul Kingsnorth, Oliver James. Published 17 June 2009. In Stock. Order now.
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Take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.
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The Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The intention of the magazine is to return dignity to the art of loafing, to make idling into something to aspire towards rather than reject. As well as providing a radical and thought-provoking read, the Idler is also very funny. MORE …
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