Geoff Dyer: Traveling Far and Wide

The Australian has an insightful interview/feature story on the British author Geoff Dyer, whose writing has encompassed many worlds, with books in both fiction and nonfiction. I’ve only read one, the wonderfully-titled collection of essays Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It. His new novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, was reviewed in The New York Times by another highly accomplished, well-traveled writer, Pico Iyer. Also see the brief Q&A in The New York Times’ Paper Cuts blog, Stray Questions for Geoff Dyer. I really like this quote from The Australian interview: “All the writing I do is for me and about things I want to learn about, (which) are adding to my cultural capital.” Finally, Dyer reveals his fantasy career in a short piece for The Observer, My other life: Geoff Dyer.