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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 I'd Rather Not
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'From one of Australia's most wryly funny writers comes an original and utterly hilarious memoir of reaching for the stars while lying in a ditch.

'I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons . . .

'Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he's sleeping rough and trying to run a literary magazine out of a dog park. His quest for meaning keeps being thwarted, by endless jobs, beagles, house parties, ill-advised love affairs, camel trips and bureaucratic entanglements.

'Sometimes a book catches the spirit of the times. I'd Rather Not is about work, escape and that something more we all need.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2023 .
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      Extent: 176p.
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      • Published 4th July 2023
      ISBN: 9781760640354

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

The 17 Best Books of 2023 Geordie Williamson , Justine Hyde , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22 January 2024;

— Review of The Sitter Angela O'Keeffe , 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story David Marr , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Conversion Amanda Lohrey , 2023 single work novel ; The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose ; Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Tyson Yunkaporta , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Praiseworthy Alexis Wright , 2023 single work novel ; Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children Tony Birch , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 2023 single work novel ; I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography ; On Peter Carey : Writers on Writers Sarah Krasnostein , 2023 single work biography ; New Australian Fiction 2023 2023 anthology short story ; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023 anthology review essay
Book Review : I’d Rather Not, Robert Skinner Thuy On , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography

'Amusing tales of a dilettante.'

y separately published work icon Robert Skinner in Conversation Christine Gordon (interviewer), 2023 26809637 2023 single work podcast interview

'In today’s episode, from one of Australia’s most wryly funny writers comes an original and utterly hilarious memoir of reaching for the stars while lying in a ditch.' (Production summary)

Robert Skinner I’d Rather Not Stephen Romei , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 July 2023;

— Review of I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography

'The Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde said we can be in the gutter but look to the stars. The Melbourne-based writer and humorist Robert Skinner agrees on the location but what he sees is the gutter. “Say what you want about rock bottom,” he writes in his whimsical, insouciant memoir I’d Rather Not, “but at least it’s sturdy.”' (Introduction)   

Robert Skinner I’d Rather Not Stephen Romei , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 July 2023;

— Review of I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography

'The Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde said we can be in the gutter but look to the stars. The Melbourne-based writer and humorist Robert Skinner agrees on the location but what he sees is the gutter. “Say what you want about rock bottom,” he writes in his whimsical, insouciant memoir I’d Rather Not, “but at least it’s sturdy.”' (Introduction)   

The 17 Best Books of 2023 Geordie Williamson , Justine Hyde , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22 January 2024;

— Review of The Sitter Angela O'Keeffe , 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story David Marr , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Conversion Amanda Lohrey , 2023 single work novel ; The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose ; Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Tyson Yunkaporta , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Praiseworthy Alexis Wright , 2023 single work novel ; Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children Tony Birch , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 2023 single work novel ; I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography ; On Peter Carey : Writers on Writers Sarah Krasnostein , 2023 single work biography ; New Australian Fiction 2023 2023 anthology short story ; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023 anthology review essay
Book Review : I’d Rather Not, Robert Skinner Thuy On , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography

'Amusing tales of a dilettante.'

y separately published work icon Robert Skinner in Conversation Christine Gordon (interviewer), 2023 26809637 2023 single work podcast interview

'In today’s episode, from one of Australia’s most wryly funny writers comes an original and utterly hilarious memoir of reaching for the stars while lying in a ditch.' (Production summary)

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