![]() Color and light come from the sky, streetlights, neon signs or surveillance lighting. Instead, in what is best supposed to be a fictional interlude, this "Geoff Dyer" ends up in a story sticky with unrealised sexual tension when a tour guide proves both attractive and rebellious. Working at twilight and dawn with a medium-format camera (setting up her tripod quickly so as not to attract police attention), Saville captured busy city streets depopulated and emptied out, industrial spaces and storefronts alike gone quiet. Typically that doesn't yield up the sort of adventure or misadventure … It doesn't generate the stuff out of which writing can emerge."Īnd yet one of the best pieces is Forbidden City, which is set up as a dreary and dutiful book festival tour of Beijing. "A lot more of the travel I do now is on book tours. "The travel I was doing before, these trips were much more under their own steam," he says. This latest collection is inspired by the more sober travel of an established writer, an author people will actually pay to visit them. ![]() The first travel book was Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, an enduring best-seller built on dissolute charm, an elegant style and generous servings of seedy fun in places such as Thailand, New Orleans, Libya. He submitted that book, Zona – part memoir, part film studies – while avoiding a commission to write on tennis, a game he still plays several times a week and on which he can talk at some length. Unfortunately she thought this was intended as an exhortation rather than a warning. Geoff Dyer, acclaimed writer and only child, describes what it was like to grow up a singleton My mother often quoted with approval the maxim, Spare the rod and spoil the child. White Sands is Dyer's 14th book and his second collection of travel-ish stories, a rare repetition for a wilfully unclassifiable writer whose output includes four novels, two essay collections and book-length meditations on jazz, photography, the Somme and the Tarkovsky film, Zona. Almost half the children born in Britain today will never have a sibling. Yes, the Svalbard story, Northern Dark, is a hoot, a riposte from the title onwards of anyone with romantic visions of the Northern Lights beyond the Arctic Circle. "I hope I redeem the theme of disappointment in that passage where I talk about my capacity of being disappointed which shows that I haven't come to some sort of resignation … that I'm still full of hope and optimism, which is a precondition for being disappointed."Īlways wary of sounding like a travel writer, Dyer is "so reluctant to use the word 'transcendent' …" and yet, he says, "every piece except for the Svalbard story, ends with some major peak experiences." Wolfson’s photograph-a self-portrait of the artist clutching a smartphone as he shoots a selfie in a mirror- reflects on the psychological power of the confrontational and prompts consideration-as does Lipsyte’s fiction-of the ways in which new media further complicates the already myriad challenges of self-expression."I certainly noticed as I was putting these things together that disappointment was a theme running through it," Dyer admits. His most recent book is Zona (2012), a much-acclaimed personal journey into the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker. But when Ted Goldsworthy, the aging but irrepressible host of Inter Alia, New Jersey, insists that Jason commutes to his house in the Garden State, his egomaniacal daughter Roanne begins to cast her spell. The award-winning British author Geoff Dyer has published four novels, three essay collections, and seven works of nonfiction on various topics, from John Berger to jazz to World War II. ![]() Matched with an artwork by Jordan Wolfson, in the form of a printed poster, the book is the third release from Gagosian’s Picture Books, an imprint conceived by author Emma Cline and dedicated to publishing fiction by leading writers alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists.įriend of the Pod introduces readers to Jason, a stalled Gen X playwright from Queens whose friend Nando lands him a job producing a podcast. Join Gagosian to celebrate the publication of Friend of the Pod by Sam Lipsyte with a reading by the author, followed by a conversation between Lipsyte and writer Geoff Dyer.
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