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Bookwatch, The, August, 2005
How To Be Idle
Tom Hodgkinson
HarperCollins
10 E. 53rd St., New York NY 10022-5299
0060779683 $18.95 1-800-242-7737
Oscar Wilde devotee Tom Hodgkinson launched a quarterly magazine in 1993 which was devoted to doing nothing. How can you write about nothing? Surprisingly there's a fine art to daydreaming, laziness, and the lack of work--and How To Be Idle combines anecdotes and literary criticism with history and a how-to commentary which defies easy categorization.
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