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1. Geoff Dyer reads at the downtown branch of the library tonight! Dyer, the author of the awesome Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and, especially, Out of Sheer Rage, reads from his new book ...
Geoff Dyer Geoff Dyer's new novel "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" is the best book I've read so far this year. It's imaginative, funny, sharply observant and surprisingly deep and I recommend ...
Geoff Dyer Geoff Dyer breezed through Portland last week, as cool and casual as a Tom Collins on a shaded veranda. Dyer's new novel "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" is getting rave reviews ...
Jeff in Venice, Death in VaranasiBy Geoff DyerPantheon, $24.00, 295 pagesMeet Jeff Atman, aging hack journalist:“He was supposed to be writing a twelve-hundred-word so-called ‘think pie… ...
He'd first read it four years ago, after getting back from the 1999 Biennale, and had started rereading it now - along with the other standard books on Venice - as preparation for the return trip. His ...
As we near the end of our monthlong discussion of “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi,” Geoff Dyer gets his oar in. The author graciously took the time this morning to field our questions. _In ...
Why do education and cynicism so often go hand in hand? Heaven forbid an intellectual should be wholehearted or, God help us, earnest about anything. Geoff Dyer is an intellectual, and not just ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. On Monday, industry trade magazine Publishers Weekly will announce ...
Geoff Dyer's latest novel is in fact two long short stories, one set in Venice and one in the Indian city of Varanasi. Each story shares the same protagonist – a middle-aged hack called Jeff ...
In a slightly similar vein, Geoff Dyer’s “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi” (Pantheon), seems confessional—it is about a journalist named Jeff who goes to Venice and Varanasi, places that ...
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