Luc Sante on Geoff Dyer at Bookforum. Scott Esposito on Luc Sante on Geoff Dyer at Conversational Reading. Profiling the entire career of Philip Roth in just under 300 words. We live in magical times when Bill Murray plays FDR. L Magazine talks to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Jim Henson’s 1969 pilot for “The Wizard of Id.” How did this not become a show?
Bites: Chekhov’s Sweet Birthday, Emma Straub a Hit, and Geoff Dyer in Utah
Today is the 15oth birthday of Anton Chekhov. Also Anna Bronte, Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Muhammad Ali, Andy Kaufman, and a bunch of other people were born on January 17th. Emma Straub (and her upcoming book release on January 27th) gets a pop in the New York Post. Finally! The best beards in literature and the best beards ever sported by writers. Why did this take so long? (Thanks 3:Am Magazine for the tip.) Geoff Dyer goes to Utah…and writes […]
Emily Gould Gets a Little Cooler Every Day
I don’t mean that in an ass kissy sort of way, I mean it in a “she picked really good memoirs for her list of favorites at The Daily Beast.” Patti Smith AND Geoff Dyer? That’s pretty baller.
Bites: Ayn Rand Dominates and is “Influential”, Paris Review Conversation, Finding Edward Gorey, and More.
This terrifying picture is from the GQ piece on Ayn Rand called “The Bitch is Back“. If you like Ayn Rand, enjoy reading about “2009’s most influential author”. Otherwise, if you are like me, continue shielding your eyes. Lit. L Magazine wonders who will take the helm at the Paris Review with Philip Gourevitch leaving? One of the names tossed around in the comments of the L Mag. conversation for a possible new Paris Review editor is Geoff Dyer. Oh, […]
Reviewed: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi By Geoff Dyer
Pantheon Books, 2009 Reviewed by Willa Cmiel Extremes are dangerous. Extreme sports, extreme dieting, extreme Calvinism, what have you, they all come with consequences. In Geoff Dyer’s diptyched novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Jeff Atman’s life exists under no extreme, not even extreme slackerism. As a freelance writer for Kulcher magazine, rather than abandoning work as he fantasizes with the click of a “send” button, he takes a walk, he cuts his hair, he pouts, and he goes […]