Most literary people when they think of past magazines called
The Idler would cite Samuel Johnson’s famous miscellany and Jerome K Jerome’s humorous organ of the1890s. Today’s
Idler is edited by the anti-corporatist and ukelele enthusiast Tom Hodgkinson, author of
How to be Free. But there was another
Idler, which is, as yet, unknown to Wikipedia, and indeed has a very, very low online profile.
This
Idler, a tabloid format miscellany printed on newsprint, edited by Sci-Fi writer James Parkhill-Rathbone, and published by ‘Editorial Associates’, existed for a short time around 1966 and then folded. Published quarterly from the editor’s home, the Old Crown, Wheatley, a former coaching inn, it called itself an ‘entertainment’, which is about right,
