{"product_id":"brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-essays-9780525562771","title":"Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878027759890,"sku":"9780525562771","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-brilliant-essays-9780525562771","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}