Claim: English writer Geoff Dyer's selection of essays from these collections entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, then in 2019, Out of Sheer Rage was listed by Slate as one of the 50 greatest nonfiction works of the past 25 years.
Evidence: A selection of essays from these collections entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in the U.S. in April 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. In 2019, Out of Sheer Rage was listed by Slate as one of the 50 greatest nonfiction works of the past 25 years. Geoff Dyer (born 5 June 1958) is an English writer. He wrote a critical study of John Berger – Ways of Telling – and two collections of essays: Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room.