277 - Geoff Dyer (genre-defying author)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Geoff is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling; two collections of essays, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and many genre-defying books: But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It, The Ongoing Moment, Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, and Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H W Bush. (shamelessly copied from geoffdyer.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Mano, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:02.3 | Hello everybody, I'm coming to you from Topanga. |
| 0:31.0 | Once again, back from three weeks on the road in Amsterdam for a few nights, |
| 0:39.0 | and Barcelona for a couple of weeks down to a beautiful place called Vecher de la Frontera |
| 0:46.1 | in Andalusia between Cadeeth and Tarifa, where Kassilda and I went to visit Deborah Berger, |
| 0:56.3 | who you've heard on this podcast. |
| 0:58.4 | She's Tau Rousspellis' mother, a very wonderful woman, got to go hang out with her at her place. |
| 1:05.2 | I think I talked about that in a previous episode. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, I did, definitely. |
| 1:11.0 | If you're going down to that part of the world, stay at her place. |
| 1:14.8 | One of her places, she buys these beautiful old ruins and renovates them. |
| 1:19.8 | Anyway, then we're in New York for five days, I think, attending the screening of the |
| 1:27.8 | New York premiere of Monogamish, Tau Rousspellis film. |
| 1:34.2 | We did Q&A's after those screenings, really cool, really wonderful people came out. |
| 1:39.8 | I had some great conversations, which overflowed into the bar upstairs. |
| 1:46.2 | That was great. |
| 1:47.2 | Hello to those of you who came out to see it. |
| 1:50.7 | Really cool to meet you. |
| 1:52.7 | Now we're back in California. |
| 1:54.4 | We just landed and got up the next morning and took Scarlett Jovansen and drove up to San |
| 2:01.7 | Francisco for Stanley Krippner's 85th birthday party in Berkeley. |
| 2:08.5 | That was crazy and beautiful. |
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