Robert Wringham

Robert Wringham (born Robert Westwood on 28 November 1982) is a British writer, best known as the editor of New Escapologist magazine.[1] His collection, A Loose Egg, was shortlisted for the 2015 Leacock Medal.[2][3]

Robert Wringham
BornRobert Westwood
1982 (age 37–38)
Dudley, England
OccupationAuthor, Comedian
CitizenshipBritish citizen
Resident of Canada
Period2007–present
GenreHumor
Notable worksNew Escapologist (2007–2017);
A Loose Egg (2014)
Spouse
Samara
(
m. 2014)
Website
wringham.co.uk

Work

Wringham is the founder of New Escapologist, a lifestyle magazine that ran from 2007 to 2017. The magazine advocated escape from the daily grind[4] and notable features included work by or interviews with Alain de Botton, Will Self, Richard Herring, Ewan Morrison, Tom Hodgkinson, Luke Rhinehart and Caitlin Doughty.

In 2012, Go Faster Stripe published Wringham's first non-fiction book You Are Nothing,[5] a micro-history of comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra,[6] whose members included Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, Julian Barratt, Graham Linehan, Sally Phillips and Johnny Vegas.[7][8] The book is written from Wringham's perspective and draws on interviews with the cast and audience members.

2014 saw the publication of A Loose Egg, a collection of short comic stories about Wringham's childhood, bachelorhood and early married life. In 2015, it was longlisted and finally shortlisted for the Leacock Medal.[9][10]

In 2015, Wringham crowdfunded a New Escapologist-related book with publisher Unbound[11] and the resulting Escape Everything! was released in 2016. A German edition called Ich Bin Raus was published in the same year and attracted considerable media attention.[12][13][14][15][16][17]

Wringham writes for Joshua Glenn's pop culture website HiLobrow,[18] and has a column in the Idler magazine.[19][20]

In an article for the one-hundredth edition of Canadian Notes and Queries, he discusses the value of humorous literature and mentions an admiration for the work of Eric Nicol, Susan Juby, Paul Quarrington and Vinyl Cafe's Stuart McLean.[21]

Books
  • You Are Nothing (2012) ISBN 978-0-9560901-2-6
  • A Loose Egg (2014) ISBN 978-0-9939318-0-2
  • Escape Everything! (2016) ISBN 978-1783521333
  • Ich Bin Raus (German edition of Escape Everything!) (2016) ISBN 978-3-453-27080-0
  • The Good Life for Wage Slaves (2020) ISBN 978-1910631010
  • Das Gute Leben (German edition of The Good Life for Wage Slaves) (2020) ISBN 978-3453271951

Personal life

Originally from Dudley, Wringham moved to Glasgow in 2004.[22] He is also a Resident of Canada.[23][24] In 2014 he married his long-term partner Samara, who appears as a foil in some of his writing.[25]

His pseudonym comes from James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a Scottish gothic horror novel.[26]

gollark: Replying to https://discord.com/channels/346530916832903169/348702212110680064/747839510280405092This is somewhat bad. Although I imagine sending people computers would be cheaper than running school.
gollark: Okay, that might not be the reason.
gollark: Boris Johnson is insisting that it's critically vital and important that everyone go to school as normal, because he is an incompetent apioid.
gollark: Yes. It was (is, I guess, I don't have school yet) so horrible being able to get up at reasonable times, work in a pleasant environment, and not have to commute.
gollark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53884401Isn't the education system GREAT?

References
  1. Penguin Authors: Robert Wringham Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  2. 2015 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour shortlist revealed CBC. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  3. Terry Fallis Wins 2015 Leacock Humour Award Toronto Star. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  4. 'Extremely damaging' work stress causes Brits to drink, smoke and be lazy Russia Today. 12 February 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  5. Robert Wringham - You Are Nothing Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  6. You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham: book review by Steve Bennett Chortle. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. Robert Wringham - You Are Nothing The List. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  8. Cluub Zarathustra: where British comedy was reborn Telegraph. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  9. Author wins Leacock Medal for Humour for second time Orillia Packet and Times. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  10. Leacock humour shortlist unveiled in Orillia Simco.com. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  11. Escape Everything! Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  12. Weniger Arbeit, Mehr Sex Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  13. Robert Wringham verrät: So sprengen Sie die Fesseln der Arbeitswelt Focus. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  14. Raus aus der Falle Wie man der Arbeit und dem Konsum entkommt Berliner Zeitung. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  15. "Putzen ist vergnüglich, wenn man es richtig sieht" Der Standard. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  16. Der Roboter Kommen Aspecte, (ZDF). 16 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  17. Sachbücher und Themen Kontext. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  18. Posts by Robert Wringham HiLoBrow. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  19. Idler 48-current
  20. How to Quit your job Idler. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  21. Journey to Orilia. Canadian Notes and Queries, No. 100. 2017.
  22. What is Robert Wringham? Wringham.co.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  23. I'm not an employee by nature. Nobody is New Escapologist. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  24. Avoiding Modern Life Mongrel p22. 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  25. Day of the Coconut Wringham.co.uk. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  26. What is Robert Wringham? Wringham.co.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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