Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is a British writer. His many books include Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It and But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz. He lives in London.
Books by Geoff Dyer
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
by Geoff Dyer
The wonderful Geoff Dyer, writer of genre-defying fiction and nonfiction, has a new photography book coming out, gathering together his criticism. His last photography book, The Ongoing Moment, won the ICP Infinity Award for Writing on Photography as well as being recommended on Five Books. Geoff spoke to us about five works of literary nonfiction which he described as 'unusual histories.'
“It’s a very brilliant and unusual way of entering this material. People tend to isolate photographers and write monographs about one at a time.” Read more...
Rachel Cohen on Writing About Art
Rachel Cohen, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It
by Geoff Dyer
It’s a book about Dyer’s mind, which I think is both interesting and funny… He is constantly flitting with ideas about all sorts of stuff – not big ideas, but things such as how easy it is to lose your hotel room key and why grass is green (literally). There is lots of stuff in it, hung together by the force of his personality. You would have a hard time describing it to a publisher.
