Otherwise Known as the Human Condition : Selected Essays and Reviews (Paperback)

from gregorybrown

Geoff Dyer is a hard man to pin down. He (deliberately) spans pretty much every subject in his writing, and they're represented in this book as several different clusters: essays on photography, literature, music, history, and memoir. Sometimes this works against the reader; I went through the fi...

from Laura400

Geoff Dyer is one of my favorite writers about photography, period. I also love his essays about books and music. As a critic he's honest, funny and on-point. This book is so chock-full of essays that you can dip in and out of it for months, appreciating his felicitous writing and self-deprecatin...

from scottapeshot

I am a Geoff Dyer fanboy and this volume was pure candy for me. Beyond the sheer joy and fireworks of Dyer riffing away at a glittering array of interesting subjects, these selections tend to create connections between many of is larger works and illuminate the everyday experiences and minor real...

from scottapeshot

I am a Geoff Dyer fanboy and this volume was pure candy for me. Beyond the sheer joy and fireworks of Dyer riffing away at a glittering array of interesting subjects, these selections tend to create connections between many of is larger works and illuminate the everyday experiences and minor real...