Tom Hodgkinson

Tom Hodgkinson is the editor of The Idler, a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine dedicated to the art of living and loafing. Tom founded the magazine in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney, and has just seen it into its 42nd issue, entitled “Smash the System”.

Tom is also the author of a series of books expounding the same Taoist-anarchist ethic: the best-selling How to be Idle (2004), How to be Free (2006) and, most recently, The Idle Parent (2009). He is also the co-editor, with Dan Kieran, of The Book of Idle Pleasures (2009).