Otherwise known as the human condition
Subtitle: selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010
By: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781555975791
Subjects: Essays
Description: A volume of nonfiction writings and essays by the National Book Critics Circle finalist draws on twenty-five years of work and includes pieces that reflect on subjects ranging from jazz and the British-dole queue to haute couture and hotel sex.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-420).
Table of contents: title: Visuals.; title: Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India --; title: Robert Capa --; title: If I die in a combat zone --; title: Ruth Orkin's V-E Day --; title: Richard Avedon --; title: Enrique Metinides --; title: Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions --; title: Alec Soth : Riverrun --; title: Richard Misrach --; title: William Gedney --; title: Michael Ackerman --; title: Miroslav Tichý --; title: Saving Grace : Todd Hido --; title: Idris Kahn --; title: Edward Burtynsky --; title: Turner and memory --; title: The American sublime --; title: The awakening of stones : Rodin --; title: Ecce homo -- -- Verbals.; title: D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers --; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned --; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night --; title: Pounding print --; title: Richard Ford : Independence day --; title: James Salter : The hunters and Light years --; title: Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke --; title: Ian McEwan : Atonement --; title: Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs --; title: Don DeLillo : Point omega --; title: The Goncourt journals --; title: Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon --; title: John Cheever : The journals --; title: Ryszard Japuściński's African life --; title: W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard --; title: Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag --; title: The moral art of war -- -- Musicals.; title: "My favorite things" --; title: Ramamani --; title: Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity --; title: Editions of contemporary me --; title: Is jazz dead? --; title: Cherry Street -- -- Variables.; title: Blues for Vincent --; title: Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria --; title: Oradour-sur-Glane --; title: Parting shots --; title: The wrong stuff --; title: Fabulous clothes --; title: The 2004 Olympics --; title: Sex and hotels --; title: What will survive of us -- -- Personals.; title: The airfix generation --; title: Comics in a man's life --; title: Violets of pride --; title: On being an only child --; title: Sacked --; title: On the roof --; title: Unpacking my library --; title: Reader's block --; title: My life as a gate-crasher --; title: Something didn't happen --; title: Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts) --; title: Of course.