April 14th, 2011
What to make of Geoff Dyer?
The persona he presents in his work embodies a kind of independence, but not the fierce, fighting kind we’ve been trained to see as heroic. Rather, he contains a lackadaisical independence, a sort of why-bother-even-pretending-to-care independence. …more
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July 29th, 2009
“Maybe my work isn’t a cry for help. It may just be a baby’s need to cry or a dog’s need to bark.” …more
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June 6th, 2009
“What Joshua Mohr is doing has more in common with Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Haruki Murakami, all great chroniclers of the fantastic. He’s interested in something weirder than mere sex, drugs, and degradation.” …more
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