Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer (born June 5, 1958) is a British author. He lives in London. He is best known as the author of "But Beautiful", which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been called (by Keith Jarrett, for example) the best book ever written about jazz. Other notable titles are "Paris Trance", "Out of Sheer Rage" (a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award), and "Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It". He has contributed articles to "The Guardian", "The Independent", "New Statesman", "Esquire", "Wallpaper*", and "Monocle".

It was recently reported on "Slate" that columnist Jaime Wolf is adapting "Paris Trance" into a film though no further details have been provided.

Bibliography

*"Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger" (1987) (see John Berger) ISBN 0-7453-0097-9
*"The Colour of Memory" (1989) ISBN 0-349-10919-2
*"" (1991) ISBN 0-86547-508-3
*"The Search" (1993) ISBN 0-349-11624-5
*"The Missing of the Somme" (1994) ISBN 1-84212-450-1
*"" (1997) ISBN 0-86547-540-7
*"Paris Trance" (1998) ISBN 0-86547-600-4
*"Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-98" (1999) ISBN 0-349-11195-2
*"Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" (2003) ISBN 1-4000-3167-2
*"The Ongoing Moment" (2005) ISBN 0-375-42215-3

Other works

*"What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney" (editor with Margaret Sartor) (2000) ISBN 0-393-04824-1
*"The Selected Essays of John Berger" (editor) (2001) ISBN 0-7475-5419-6
*"Granta 79: Celebrity" (contributor: "Hotel Oblivion")
*"Granta 80: The Group" (contributor: " [http://www.granta.com/extracts/1872 On the Roof] ")
*"Granta 91: Wish You Were Here" (Contributor: "White Sands")
*"Give Our Regards To The Atomsmashers!" (Contributor: "Comics In A Man's Life")
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/04/18/RV91714.DTL&hw=dyer+borges&sn=001&sc=1000 In Borges, a Surfeit of Riches] , a review of "Selected Poems" by Jorge Luis Borges in the San Francisco Chronicle
* [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030901&s=dyer Space Is the Place] article by Geoff Dyer at The Nation.
* [http://www.opencity.org/backfeature.html Albert Camus] article by Geoff Dyer from Opencity#9 ISBN 1-890447-20-X
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,,1587449,00.html The Road Less Familiar] , a memoir about being a "scholarly gatecrasher" in The Guardian

External links

* [http://www.identitytheory.com/printme/dyerprint.html interview with Geoff Dyer] at Identity theory
* [http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/geoff_dyer.htm interview with Geoff Dyer] at Absolutewrite.
* [http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2003/02/20030206_b_main.asp audio interview with Geoff Dyer] at On Point
* [http://www.complete-review.com/authors/dyerg.htm Geoff Dyer at the complete review]
* [http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2005/04/embut_beautiful.html analysis of "But Beautiful" with excerpts]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth233 biography]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw061123geoff_dyer Radio interview on Bookworm, National Public Radio]