Podcast Episodes featuring Geoff Dyer

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At the Movies with Geoff Dyer

LARB Radio Hour - March 22, 2019 06:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
Geoff Dyer joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf to discuss his new book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy about the 1968 Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood war movie, Where Eagles Dare. In talking about a film that has held his attention since childhood, Dyer expounds on the continuitie...

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277 - Geoff Dyer (genre-defying author)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - October 26, 2017 17:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
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 M...

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Geoff Dyer

Private Passions - November 13, 2016 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Geoff Dyer is a writer who joyously defies categorisation. The winner of many literary prizes, and frequently described as one of the most original writers of his generation, he surprises at every turn with his blending of fiction and non-fiction, and with his subjects, which range through trave...

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Geoff Dyer on Class in America

Library Talks - June 28, 2016 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratings
Award-winning English author Geoff Dyer came to the Library this spring to discuss his latest book, “White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World.” In this conversation with NYPL’s Jessica Strand, Dyer talks about travel, unexpected awareness, and looking for meaning in the world around you.

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49. Geoff Dyer (Author) – Ordinary Epiphanies

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - June 04, 2016 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer is one of the English language's most mordant and poetic observers of art, travel, and human behavior. He's the winner of the National Book Critics Circle  Award for Criticism and the Windham Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. In his most recent book White Sands, weav...

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1570: A 2014 Interview with Geoff Dyer

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - June 15, 2014 19:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"..but it was as nothing compared to the noise of planes landing..."

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S4E41: Born Worn Down with Geoff Dyer

Notebook on Cities and Culture - June 12, 2014 14:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
Colin Marshall sits down in Venice with Geoff Dyer, author of books all across the spectrum between fiction and non-fiction on such subjects as jazz, photography, travel, World War I, and Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. His newest book Another Great Day at Sea follows his two weeks aboard the a...

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Episode 154, with guests Michael Waldman and Geoff Dyer

Polioptics - June 07, 2014 03:35 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Shining a light on the theater of politics, White House veteran Josh King and his guests of Beltway insiders & outsiders pull back the curtain each week on the national drama and events driving the images and headlines. PoliOptics -- a mash-up of 'politics' and 'optics' -- sees Washington as a lo...

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Literary auteurhood: Geoff Dyer, writer and intellectual gatecrasher

Notebook on Cities and Culture - May 26, 2011 05:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
Colin Marshall talks to Geoff Dyer, the "intellectual gatecrasher" who has written, in addition to several novels, books on photography, World War I, jazz, John Berger, travel, and D.H. Lawrence. His essays turn out to cover an even wider span of subjects than his books, and his latest collectio...

Books written by Geoff Dyer

Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer

1 Episode - 654 pages - ★★★★ - 37.6K ratings