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By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, and unflinching recollectionsJoel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, 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.