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The Polysyllabic Spree

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    …of his favourite music, and The Polysyllabic Spree (2004), which collects the pop-culture columns he wrote for the literary magazine The Believer. Further collections of those columns included Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (2006), Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008), More Baths, Less Talking (2012) and Ten Years in the Tub (2013).

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