Schott's Original Miscellany

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It’s hard to define, but we know it when we findit… Schott’s Original Miscellany is without doubt the oddest, and possiblythemerriest, title you will come across in a long day’s march through theshimmering desert of contemporary publishing. Schott's Original Miscellany is, without doubt, the oldest, and possibly merriest title you will come across in a long day's march through the shimmering desert of contemporary publishing".

Ben Schott - Wikipedia

For over a year he wrote a regular travel miscellany column for the UK edition of Condé Nast Traveler magazine. Intelligent entertainment at a high level, timedperfectly for out post-modern, deconstructed, andoverall scatterbrained time of age. The four books in the Miscellanytrilogy have been translated into 21 languages (including Braille), and have sold over 2. I managed to persuade The Pear Tree Press (the one in Stevenage, not the one in Jamaica) to print 50 hard-back copies.

Schott publishes a bespoke Miscellany Diary with the society printers Smythson of Bond Street, and a desk-pad diary with Workman. In 2003, I decided to create a little booklet of information of use to photographers, designers, and picture editors.

Schott MISCELLANIES | Ben Schott

On my way to pitch this Christmas card idea to a large advertising agency (WPP), I was waylaid by an old friend (Martin) who persuaded me to turn the card into a book. Ben has written for many of the great British and American titles including The Times, The Telegraph, The New York Times, The Spectator, Private Eye, Bloomberg Opinionand Playboy.Schott's Original Miscellany was published with little fanfare in 2002, but after an article in the Guardian, in which the book was described as the "publishing sensation of the year", sales increased, and within weeks Schott's Original Miscellany was at No. Walter Thompson, Ben spent most of his twenties as a freelance portrait photographer for a diverse range of editorial and commercial clients. It was a work of striking originality, and it was remarkable to receive an unsolicited submission like this in the mail.

Schott ABOUT | Ben Schott

Schott introduced the 2006 Almanac with a quote from Ben Hecht: "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock". Unusually, Ben designs and typesets virtually all of his work –as well offering design and narrative consultancyto a range of clients. Schott typeset the book himself and had 50 copies privately printed by the Pear Tree Press in Stevenage. In 2002, Ben turned a Christmas card into his first book — Schott’s Original Miscellany—which within weeks was a bestseller.Walter Thompson where he was an account manager on the Nestlé Rowntree account working on Smarties, Kit Kat and Polo. Tony Blair asked Schott if he would like to see then-baby Leo; Cherie barked at him not to take too long as they were about to have lunch.

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Together the first three books have sold over two million copies, and Schott's Original Miscellany has been translated into more than 13 languages (including Japanese). The first edition of Schott's Almanac was published in Britain in 2005, followed by yearly editions published in Britain, America, and Germany until 2010. In November 2018 his first novel, a pastiche Jeeves book titled Jeeves and the King of Clubs, was published by Little, Brown, and Company.

Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. In 2005 and 2006 the Guardian featured special editions of G2 featuring extracts from Schott's Almanac.