Thomas Hodgkinson: 2 books
How to be Cool
The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S***
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cool can’t be taught. That’s the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to Sound Cultured) shows that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the masters and the methods of the past.
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How to Sound Cultured
Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen Fry
Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre?
How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly...