Research Catalog

Title

Otherwise known as the human condition : selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010 / Geoff Dyer.

Author

Dyer, Geoff

Publication

Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

xii, 421 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

Essays

Genre/Form

• English essays – 21st century.
• essays.
• Essays
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-420).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Visuals. Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India -- Robert Capa -- If I die in a combat zone -- Ruth Orkin's V-E Day -- Richard Avedon -- Enrique Metinides -- Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions -- Alec Soth : Riverrun -- Richard Misrach -- William Gedney -- Michael Ackerman -- Miroslav Tichý -- Saving Grace : Todd Hido -- Idris Kahn -- Edward Burtynsky -- Turner and memory -- The American sublime -- The awakening of stones : Rodin -- Ecce homo -- Verbals. D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- Pounding print -- Richard Ford : Independence day -- James Salter : The hunters and Light years -- Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke -- Ian McEwan : Atonement -- Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs -- Don DeLillo : Point omega -- The Goncourt journals -- Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon -- John Cheever : The journals -- Ryszard Japuściński's African life -- W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard -- Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag -- The moral art of war -- Musicals. "My favorite things" -- Ramamani -- Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity -- Editions of contemporary me -- Is jazz dead? -- Cherry Street -- Variables. Blues for Vincent -- Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria -- Oradour-sur-Glane -- Parting shots -- The wrong stuff -- Fabulous clothes -- The 2004 Olympics -- Sex and hotels -- What will survive of us -- Personals. The airfix generation -- Comics in a man's life -- Violets of pride -- On being an only child -- Sacked -- On the roof -- Unpacking my library -- Reader's block -- My life as a gate-crasher -- Something didn't happen -- Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts) -- Of course.

ISBN

• 1555975798 (pbk.)
• 9781555975791 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010937517

OCLC

• 650212620
• SCSB-10575315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library