Enter our writing competition!
06 April 2007
This Christmas we will be publishing the Idler book of Idle Pleasures, with excellent illustrations from the marvellous Ged Wells. Knowing what a talented bunch our readers are after the success of all the crap books, we thought we’d leave fifteen of the seventy-odd pleasures up to you. The only stipulation is that each pleasure must either be very cheap or completely free. The best fifteen entries will appear in the book and each writer will get a copy of the book and an invitation to the launch event, which will have a free bar. Entries should be no more than 200 words and be emailed to dan@idler.co.uk. The closing date for entries is April 25th.
"All pubs are terrible places now. I mean you wouldnÕt have known a decent pub at your age, I shouldnÕt think. They didnÕt have fucking music. They didnÕt have cigarette machines. They didnÕt sell the chemical beer. They were for proper drinkers, not for fucking yobs, hooligans. I want to go into a pub and meet interesting people, not to look at a lot of people sitting on the floor drinking out of tins. I canÕt stand it. Mostly people in your age group. Ruin pubs."