About Paul
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“Carr is funny enough that you can almost forgive him.” - Mil Millington
Paul Carr is a writer. Sort of.
For the first part of what he laughingly calls his ‘career’, he edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure. After getting fired from every job he’d ever had - including at least two where he was his own boss - he realised it was easier to write about other people’s success than to have any of his own.
Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, the bizarre story of his not-entirely-successful attempt to become a famous Internet billionaire, was published in 2008 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
He also writes a weekly column for the Guardian about his adventures in the technology industry called ‘Not Safe For Work‘.
Paul has been described as ‘a latter-day Jonathan Swift’ by the Christian Science Monitor, ‘Hilariously cynical’ by the Observer, ‘Brilliant’ by i-D magazine and ‘capable of inciting violence’ by the Obscene Publications Squad (really). Belle de Jour recently wrote a haiku comparing him unfavourably to Po Bronson.
His favourite drink is dark rum and Diet Coke, he worked as a magician for four years, is a sucker for a heist movie, has a guilty crush on Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks, knows the lyrics to every Barenaked Ladies song and every novelty rap from the early-to-mid 90s - and owns two pairs of shoes.
He divides his time mostly between London, mainland Europe and the USA - which makes him technically homeless.
He is 29-years-old and resolutely NSFW.
More about Paul? Read his interview with Waterstones.com or this profile by Danuta Kean for Orion.
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It is also the companion site to his book, Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, which is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and is available in all good bookshops right now.
Do make yourself at home.
'The self-deprecating humour and drunken exploits that irritate the very people he needs to keep on side keeps you turning the pages.' - Spectator Business Reads Of 2008
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