A writer who resists categorization . . . His work is illusory yet real, funny but serious. * * GQ * *
Shrewd, funny, original . . . very good company on the page. -- Andrew Motion * * Guardian * *
Dyer is a witty and concise observer of landscapes: social, geographical and emotional . . . His eccentric charm and barbed perceptiveness will hook you to the end. * * The Times * *
One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence. -- Alain de Botton
Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Geoff Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times. * * William Boyd * *
A national treasure -- Zadie Smith
If i imagine Dyer's authorial voice thrown into my inner ear, it sounds calm and supremely well-mannered. In part this is what makes him such a good comic writer - his deadpan is effortless, he never corpses . . . I had no difficulty in lapping up page after paragraph of this fare; Dyer writes engagingly on everything from his love of doughnuts to his sequested working class childhood in Swindon, and so i found myself sitting up later than intended, keeping up a mantra of agreement - um, yes, i suppose so - punctuated by the occasional bray of laughter. -- Will Self * * Financial Times Life and Arts * *
Covering everything from war movies and D H Lawrence to Richard Avedon's photography and Paris fashion week. Witty persuasive Dyer shines most when he is in the picture. -- Boyd Tonkin * * Independent * *
Is what Dyer does great? I could read his non-fiction all day. There's a danger that we underestimate him given the approachability of his prose. His language isn't matey but it hits a relaxed, intimate note, a directness that never lapses into the demotic. He appears casual, louche even - yet Dyer's thoughts never are. -- Colin Waters * * Sunday Herald * *
Dyer has long been the most productive of slackers. -- Tim Adams * * Observer * *
Though it's taken us an embarrassingly long time to get around to realising it, we now agree with the rest of the literary establishment in considering Geoff Dyer to be one of the cleverest and funniest British writers currently drawing breath . . . Dyer's new book (which you should also buy) is a supremely good collection of many vibrant, witty and dead brainy essays he's penned over the last decade on subects as varied as John Cheevers Journals, Paris couture shows and shagging in luxury hotels. * * Dazed & Confused * *
A veritable feast for the curious and creatively inclined. * * Good Book Guide * *
A superlative writer smudging the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, Dyer is a treasure -- Colin Waters * * Sunday Herald * *
delve into all aspects of culture and the arts. Dyer's musings provide an intensely personal view of the world * * The Times * *
very funny * * The Sunday Telegraph * *
burrowing into a subject like a worm in an apple -- Victoria Segal * * The Guardian * *
it's hard not to join him in his wonder -- Victoria Segal * * The Guardian * *
A superlative writer smudging the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, Dyer is a treasure * * Sunday Herald * *
