Tom Hodgkinson - How To Be Idle

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HOW TO BE IDLE

Tom Hodgkinson is doing what he has always done, which is a mixture of editing magazines, writing articles and putting on parties. He was born in 1 968, founded the Idler in 1 993 and now lives in Devon.

How to be Idle

TOM HODGKINSON

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First published by Hamish Hamilton 2004

Published in Penguin Books with additional material 2005

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Copyright Tom Hodgkinson, 2004 , 2005

Illustrations copyright Roderick Mills, 2004

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Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser ISBN: 978-0- 1 4 - 1 92854-8

For Gavin Hills,

who knew how to live