Joshua Glenn’s Idler’s Glossary
The writer, critic and founder of Hermenaut magazine, Joshua Glenn, has just published an important piece of work called The Idler’s Glossary with Biblioasis in Canada. It’s a very nicely produced and illustrated pocket-sized guide to around 400 idling related terms, from Absent-minded to Working-Class Hero. A shorter version appeared in the Idler magazine nearly ten years ago, but this is a much-improved text. I urge everyone to get a copy—a great pleasure and a great read. We plan to offer it for sale in the Idler Shop, but for now you can get it from Amazon by clicking here
Essential reading matter
"All my peers and contemporaries, their work ethic is utterly dictated by materialism: the amount of compromise they will make. I've seen them all, from the beginning. I was famous before all of them. I see them now, and I swear to you, they are the living dead. Their work is dead. They have no sparkle about their lives, about themselves. They're just treading water - they're not even treading water, they're treading fucking syrup. Bad syrup."