Autor: Geoff Dyer

Venedig. Der ausgebrannte Journalist Jeff soll von der Biennale berichten. Obwohl er die Kunstwelt verachtet, stürzt er sich ins Partyleben rund um die Messe und trifft auf Laura, die ihn in ihren Ba …

Ehrfurcht ist die Mutter aller Schreibblockaden. Das bekommt auch Geoff Dyer zu spüren, als er sein nächstes Buch angeht: eine Studie über sein Vorbild D. H. Lawrence, den Schöpfer der ›Lady Chatterl …

Warum reisen wir? Woher der feste Glaube, dass es uns an einem anderen Ort besser ginge? Der Himmel blauer wäre, das Lebensgefühl »echter«, das Essen besser. Warum schreiben wir manchen Orten eine ge …

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”In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. ”We”re not lost, ” one of his hero”s friend”s says, ”we …

Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity – and trademark originality – The Ongoing Moment is Dyer”s uniqu …

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding mome …

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Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Venice Art Biennale. He’s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He’s not expecting to …

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 sh …

John Berger’s writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibiti …

In this spellbinding new book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as ”possibly the best living writer in Britain” takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him …

Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer”s best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), pa …

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 poet …

Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of …

Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H. Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by . . . everything! Welcome to the world of Dye …

In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. As they discover the clubs and cafés of the eleventh arrondissement, the four become inseparable, united by deeply held co …

Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it”s not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him …

________________’This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one’ – New Statesman’Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to won …

”We were on one of the technologically most advanced places on earth but the guys in grease-smeared brown sweat shirts and floatcoats, draped with heavy brown chains, looked like they were ready to …

From one of Britain”s most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel.Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer”s Yoga for …

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China’s rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable econ …

Alive with insight, delight and Dyer’s characteristic irreverence, this book offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Acr …

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Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed …

”Wide-ranging and eclectic’ TLS”Seductively curious” Observer‘A visual and intellectual journey” Herald See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. St …

Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and …

John Cheever’s journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he als …

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKIn this endlessly stimulating investigation into ‘things coming to an end, artists’ last works, time running out’, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age …

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain …

The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony’ to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities tra …

From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-’a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity’-Baudrillard mixes aper�us and observations with a wicked sense of fun …

In the winter of 1984, Sharon Nicorvo was violently raped while delivering pizza to Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. At the same time, her seven-year-old son Jay was being subjected to repeated …

In the winter of 1984, Sharon Nicorvo was violently raped while delivering pizza to Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. At the same time, her seven-year-old son Jay was being subjected to repeated …

In Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and what it means to come of age in England in the 60s and 70s, in a country shaped by the aftermath Second World War but accelerating towards change …