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At some point we hope to be able to provide a list of Geoff’s uncollected writings from magazines and journals over the last twenty years. For the moment, though, we’re taking a year zero approach starting 13 April 2011.

Geoff has started writing a monthly column, Reading Life, for the New York Times Book Review. The first appeared on 22 July 2011:

Reading Life: An Academic Author’s Unintentional Masterpiece

And here’s the second NY Times Book Review column, published on 26 August 2011:

Reading Life: What We Do to Books

 

 

Symposium on Live Music in The Threepenny Review, Fall 2011

Crusing for Tennis Partners

New York Times, 24 August 2011

 

Geoff Dyer: The most beautiful game
Prospect, 25 May 2011

Geoff Dyer: Poles Apart – Notes from a Pilgrimage
The New Yorker, 18 April, 2011

Books

‘Few books about film feel like watching a film, but this one does. We sit with Dyer as he writes about Stalker, he captures its mystery and burnish, he prises it open and gets its glum majesty. As a result of this book, I know the film better, and care about Tarkovsky even more.’ Mark Cousins, author of THE STORY OF FILM

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Forewords & Afterwords

Geoff Dyer introduces this survey of Jacob Holdt’s photographs of America in the 1970s.

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As Editor

When William Gedney died in 1989 at the age of 56 he was little known except to a few colleagues and curators. This book, co-edited by Geoff Dyer, reveals Gedney’s remarkable photographs as well as writings by him.

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