White Sands: Experiences From the Outside World by Geoff.
A book of essays reflecting Geoff Dyer’s work over the past ten years. Essays covering everything from personal reflections to perceptive critiques of writers and artists, the range spaning humour to insights into military morality. You’ll find yourself furiously scribbling notes on future reading and references to follow up as you follow the author through subjects rare and familiar.
Working the Room: Essays by Geoff Dyer These essays suggest that there are very few who can match Dyer for the wit and width of his cultural references. Iain Finlayson. Saturday November 13 2010.
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and.
Geoff Dyer divided his collection of essays into different categories: Visuals, Verbals, Musicals, Variables, Personals. I chose to skip much of 'Verbals' and 'Musicals', read parts of 'Variables', and enjoyed reading the whole of 'Visuals' and 'Personals'. Best part has to be the 'Introduction' though. review 2: Whether he is talking about the perils of being an only child, the merits of F.
Everything’s about Geoff. These essays tend to embed criticism in autobiography, and vice versa — which is as much as to say that Dyer is interested in sensibility: what we bring to books.
Geoff Dyer is equally catholic in his selection of topics, usually approached in a pleasurably digressive style entirely his own. His book about photography, The Ongoing Moment (2005), is organized around various photographers’ handling of subjects, from blind individuals to hats to benches. Dyer warns his readers in the book’s introduction.
A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff Dyer. For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the.