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Subject(s)

• English essays—21st century [Browse]
• English wit and humor [Browse]
• Jacobson, Howard—Anecdotes [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Essays [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• essays [Browse]

Summary note

"Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winnng novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivoulous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal. As the much-loved newspaper ceases printing, this second collection of Jacobson's columns offers a selection of the witty and thunderous best..."--Back cover.

Notes

"This is my second selection of columns from the Independent"--Introduction.

Contents

• The dogs last walk
• So long as there are women laughing, civilisations safe
• Experience is lovelier than innocence
• How to live forever
• God is me
• Sweet boy, that Jihadi John
• All sportsmen die in hotels
• Did you see what my arm just did?
• Darts: the last refuge of the serious
• The erotic gravitas of George Galloway
• Toast
• In Gods name, why?
• Fishermans friend
• Ignorance is Bravo Lima India Sierra Sierra
• In the country of the deaf the man with subtitles is king
• Phoney racists
• Get out of my face!
• Raising the age of consent
• Arrivederci Raffaele
• Rejoice!
• Fanatics only ever read one book
• Boris and the bikes
• Strictly turn-off
• Who dunnit? The one who dunnit last time
• Smiley face
• There was a rabbi of Kiev
• A pocket manual of blame
• Death is Venice
• How not to be a knob
• The glorious madness of Wisden
• You're going the wrong way, mate
• Lets introduce ourselves: whats your username?
• How very dare you
• You cant enjoy Proust or aloo gobi standing up
• Nice porn
• The shame that outlives us
• Calm down, dear
• The new barbarism
• Shoot the highwayman
• But what if I dont want to connect to you?
• Nostril hair and the university
• How to be hip
• Peace
• The sweet seductiveness of loss
• Nellie, I am Catherine Earnshaw
• The phoenix and the turtle
• The wages of indulgence is darts
• Whats Hecuba to you?
• In Leonard Cohens fedora you too can look like L. S. Lowry
• The unhappy wanderer
• At least the old arent young
• Theres always another dark lady
• Bastard
• Scrooge
• Is that all there is?
• Flyting, sledging, and where to stick your asterisks
• Wasp watching - Steady on, Lawrence
• Conformity kills
• Happy now?
• A self-effacing man
• When enoughs enough
• The world turned upside down
• Down and out in covent garden
• The star is fallen
• Advice to a young artist: Dont be yourself
• Cropper
• Tenho saudades tuas
• Preacher man
• American buffalo
• Norovirus
• Nani in space
• The Queen versus Edward Snowden
• Into the digital darkness
• Nights in white satin; nuns in red nighties
• Killing is a serious business
• In praise of insincerity
• Yes but no but
• And no I said no I wont No: Molly Bloom decides against casting a vote in the 2015 elections
• Culpability brown
• Dont ask me
• Dumb also degrades
• The dying bug
• Weeping in the new year
• Is that a bomb youre carrying or are you just pleased to see me?
• Damnation for dummies
• Remembering Odin Testostenhammur
• Clowns
• It isnt a day of rest we need, its a day unlike the day before
• These things of darkness
• Offence is sacred
• And its goodnight from him
• A Note on the author.

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Other title(s)

• Dog's last walk (and other pieces)
• Independent (London, England)

ISBN

• 9781408845288 (hardback)
• 1408845288 (hardback)
• 9781408845295 (trade paperback)
• 1408845296 (trade paperback)

OCLC

978378542

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