Geoff Dyer: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Geoff Dyer on the secrets that structure his new novel (which might, on the surface, seem like two novellas)....

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:07.0	You are a human animal.
0:11.0	You are a very special breed,
0:15.0	or you are the only animal, who can think, who can reason, who can read.
0:22.3	From KCRW Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:27.6	Today I am really thrilled to have as my guest, Jeff Dyer.
0:30.7	His most recent book is a novel or two novellas or a set of travel writings or projections or meditations or inquiries
0:41.6	called Jeff in Venice, Death and Veronesi.
0:45.6	He's the author as well of my favorite book about music, but really one of my favorite
0:53.6	books called But Beautiful, a book about music, but really one of my favorite books called But Beautiful, a book
0:57.0	about not writing a book of criticism about D.H. Lawrence called Out of Shear Range. A remarkable
1:05.0	work on photography called The Color of Memory.
1:09.0	No, called The Ongoing Moment. Oh, that No, called the ongoing moment.
1:11.4	Oh, that's right, the ongoing moment.
1:14.2	Do you want to do that again?
1:15.8	Well, sure, but I'm not ashamed to be wrong.
1:19.8	Let's just go on.
1:22.0	The wonderful book of essays, yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it.
1:28.1	A collection published in England of critical pieces
1:31.5	called Anglo-English Attitudes.
1:34.0	And here we are with Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanese.
1:39.3	Now, the reason I kind of love Jeff Dyer
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