The Spectator Book of Wit Humour and Mischief

The Spectator Book of Wit  Humour and Mischief
Author: Marcus Berkmann
Publsiher: Little, Brown Book Group
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781408707449

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Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong. From Jeffrey Bernard's reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s, we encounter in turn the wild stream of consciousness of Deborah Ross's restaurant reviews, the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen, Rod Liddle's frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazine's secret weapon, low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke. This bumper selection, which also includes eminent diarists, mad letter-writers and Boris Johnson, amounts to a masterclass in comic writing, lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann, who still can't believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twenty-eight years without being fired.

How to Be a Writer

How to Be a Writer
Author: Marcus Berkmann
Publsiher: Little, Brown Book Group
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781408713822

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Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in that time, several of them in the right order. This, his 13th or possibly 14th book, is about those years of writing: the triumphs (few), the heartbreaks (many), the sackings (more than you would expect), the biscuits (many, many more than you would expect). In it he somehow makes the act of staring out of a window wondering what to say next seem both fascinating and, in some strange way, enviable, whereas, like most writers, he rarely leaves the house other than to go to the pub or the off-licence. Often asked how you become a writer, his advice remains: Please do not. There's already enough competition out there and we don't need any more. His advance for this book was about enough to buy a packet of Jaffa Cakes.

The Wit of the Spectator

The Wit of the Spectator
Author: Christopher Howse
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0712629033

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The Spectator

The Spectator
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1826
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: HARVARD:HWRICZ

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The Spectator

The Spectator
Author: William Wheeler
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1892
Genre: Spectator
ISBN: HARVARD:32044086771458

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The Spectator

The Spectator
Author: Henry Morley
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1883
Genre: English essays
ISBN: HARVARD:HWP827

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The Spectator

The Spectator
Author: Morley
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 952
Release: 1853
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UBBS:UBBS-00086447

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The Spectator

The Spectator
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 950
Release: 1813
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UCD:31175002734948

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