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Tour de Raunch
... dream inaugural issue, but it included Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Harry Mathews, Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ben Marcus, and Nicholson Baker. Funding wasn’t available...
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Karan Mahajan talks with Adam Ehrlich Sachs
... directly or through W. G. Sebald, his glum disciple--is the hidden influence behind a huge swath, maybe the main swath, of contemporary fiction. Geoff Dyer warned us
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Personae of Interest
... Google), in the galley copy for Thomas Beller’s J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (New Harvest, $20), which likens it to Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence, another book “as...
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Bookforum talks with Thomas Beller
... who himself is on a kind of adventure. It was all a bit of a leap. Three other biographies come to mind that resemble this one: Geoff Dyer on Lawrence, Nicholson Baker on Updike, and Pico Iyer on...
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Apr 19, 2012 @ 04:00 am
... and interviews by Maria Bustillos , Geoff Nicholson , and Mark McGurl
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Aug 29, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
... memoir about American intelligence and the September 11 attacks. Geoff Dyer reads books, picks nose . Katie...
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Jan 31, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am
... Geoff Nicholson reflects on the “perils of literary profiling ,” writing: “Books are acquired for all kinds of...
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Pleasure Principle
... the dark alleys of history and delivering him to us not as a case history but as a fully human and unique individual. Geoff Nicholson’s most recent novel is Gravity’s Volkswagen (Harbour, 2009). He...
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Jun 1, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am
... America’s working class." I'm feeling lucky: novelist Geoff Nicholson writes that "ideas of what’s worth knowing, and even what’s interesting, are constantly changing," and dusts off his "outdated...
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Mild Irish Rose
...’s exactly what life’s like. Once again, Doyle seems likely to have brought off that most surprising and deft of conjuring tricks, winning the approval of both critics and common readers. Geoff Nicholson...
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Rare Bits & Pieces
... things I want to do.” Geoff Nicholson’s The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism (Riverhead) was published last fall. ...
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STEERING ZEAL
... didn’t. Whether any of this satisfies Vanderbilt’s ambitions to tell us why we drive the way we do, and what it says about us, I doubt. Geoff Nicholson is the author of fourteen novels, most...
