Con excusas para #WGSebald, #AgustínFernándezMallo, #MirceaCartarescu, #JavierMarías, #TonyJudt, #IanMcEwan, #EdmundDeWaal, #RachelCusk, #KarlOveKnausgaard, #SvetlanaAlexievich, #GeoffDyer, #LászlóKrasznahorkai...
Estas son mis 4 novelas europeas del primer cuarto del siglo XXI:
Each season was filled with hilarious scenes, but the final scene of Blackadder captures with profound emotion what the experience of world war I was to an entire generation of Brits.
#blackadder #somme #geoffdyer
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Me tiemblan las manos, las piernas y el pensamiento solo de ver el festín que me aguarda.
¡Mil gracias a @vicenteluismora.bsky.social & @lacajabooks.bsky.social & @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social & #EdicionesComisura & #GeoffDyer & @randomhousees.bsky.social & #JorgeLuisBorges & @alfaguara.bsky.social!
The clearing wind had begun to blow. As the overcast was displaced with brilliance and color, as more and more light poured into the valley, the hour seemed tumultuous and exalting. Backgammon and gin.
—The Journals of John Cheever
#prose #genre #lyrical #johncheever #geoffdyer
Dispatched from the More Writing About Digitalized Archive
Being Jack Nicholson - From Geoff Dyer's Zona To The Overlook Hotel And Other Scenes Of Escape reecechoules.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/b...
#shortstories #lifewriting #GeoffDyer #Tarkovsky
Not reading more #GeoffDyer. And retiring the tag.
I can relate to than what is conveyed in #TheLastDaysofRogerFederer. I guess like Hamlet and Wittgenstein #GeoffDyer would have us pass over the rest in silence but admitting like them that is the Best Part they are just horribly shy about talking about them. Peace!
Reading more #GeoffDyer for a while, though ultimately may be because in temperament he truly is a friendly fetch dog and I am a kitcat lounging in the sun wondering why do those critters have to bark so much about whatever they are doing. Which is more like the sentiment of an almost 60-year-old--
That seems like a recipe headaches at least and definitely is climbing on the authenticity spiral which ultimately--sorry to say this #GeoffDyer-- to the exhaustion and thoughts of a late style and can lead to true NONSENSE if Heidegger is any example. At the end it is fatiguing, so I will not be--
To elaborate on my less eloquent and less worked up out of extensive and sensitive reading--with the odd exemplification of a tin ear re: Musil and Proust, not just Faulkner, I think with all three #GeoffDyer worries even when reading a page that he will not complete them--than The Last Days is
The creator is that if you have no sympathy with their interests--I see your deafness Faulkner with a polite FU about George Best and effing Bjorn Borg, #GeoffDyer -- you will dismiss the rhetorical and lyrical dexterity they exhibit with them.
#BlueSkyArtShow
Portrait with floral double exposure
#Tulips #BabysBreath #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nikon #Portrait #ClassicMonochrome #HumansofBlueSky #BlackandWhite #ClassicMono #PortraitPhotography #Frame #Avedon #Emulation #Strength #Art #Style #Hands
#Earrings #GeoffDyer #TheOngoingMoment
Also shout out to #GeoffDyer who I envy his attention tennis even after it became a Tall Man's Game and basically every word of Out of Sheer Rage. It would have made drop out of GradSchool then and there but too late for that. Not to old but bloomed late to be an X-Mentor.
#Sideways Portrait
#BlueSkyArtShow by #EastCoastKin
#Photography #Nikon #Portrait #ClassicMonochrome #HumansofBlueSky #BlackandWhite #BWPhotography #PortraitPhotography #Frame #Avedon #Emulation #Strength #Art #Japan #Style #Mode
#Chic #Earrings #GeoffDyer #TheOngoingMoment
Short of having a time machine, if you want to attend dinners, parties and hear all the literary gossip of 1870s Paris, the journals of the Goncourt brothers are the next best thing.
#Goncourt #Journals #Literary #Paris #GeorgeSand #Flaubert
#GeoffDyer #NYRBClassics
#humansofbluesky
Lost in the Work
#museum #watching #learning #looking #humans #underexposed #art #immersion #ongoingmoment #engaged #geoffdyer #seattle #asianart #glow #warmth #EastCoastKin #dodge #burn #westcoastphotography #colorphotography #paitence #engaged #lostinart
Eugène Atget Hôtel des Archevêques de Lyon, rue Saint-André-des-Arts, 58 1900 MOMA
…Atget built up a huge photographic inventory of the doors of Paris, open and closed. Closed doors convey the mediums commitment to the surface , open doors convey the potential for interior psychological investigation of unseen recesses.
—The Ongoing Moment
—Geoff Dyer
#Atget #GeoffDyer #views
#BlueSkyArtShow #lines
Cited in Geoff Dyer’s ‘The Ongoing Moment’
Joel Meyerowitz (American, b. 1938)
Fence, Truro
negative 1976; print 1992
Chromogenic print
59.7 x 47.3cm (23 1/2 x 18 5/8 in.)
#Genre #PhotographyBooks #GeoffDyer #JoelMeyerowitz #CapeCod
In my used copy of Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, he writes, “As we flew over Nevada, a cloud printed an ink-blot shadow, exactly the shape of the British Isles, on the arid nothingness below.”
Next to that, the previous owner left the following marginalia: “REALLY?”
#geoffdyer #nonfiction
Nothing snobby meant by for jazz fans only, just a heads up that it's 16 minutes. That noted, if asked to provide evidence of jazz, this is it. It swings, & a drummer that turns his kit into a melodic instrument. & the tradition; Billie Holiday. #Jazz #GeoffDyer
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Another section from ‘But Beautiful’ by Geoff Dyer. This time he’s writing about jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.
#jazz #biography #genre #invention #history #narrative #geoffdyer #charlesmingus #beautiful #intense #bass #composer #@picadorbooks.bsky.social
From ‘But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz’ by Geoff Dyer.
Geoff Dyer’s book ‘But Beautiful’ is subtitled ‘a Book about Jazz’. The book’s section on Monk shows how everything from his walk to his playing was angular.
#jazz #biography #genre #invention #history #narrative #geoffdyer #theoloniusmonk #beautiful #intense #@picadorbooks.bsky.social
Geoff Dyer’s book ‘But Beautiful’ is subtitled ‘a Book about Jazz’. The book deals with the incredible pressure involved in improvisation—soloing & not repeating yourself.
#jazz #biography #genre #invention #history #narrative #geoffdyer #artpepper #beautiful #intense #@picadorbooks.bsky.social
Excerpt from a chapter on Ben Webster. #jazz #biography #literature #genre #invention #history #narrative #geoffdyer #benwebster #beautiful #prose #stylist @picadorbooks.bsky.social
architecture: Smith Tower at midnight
#geoffdyer #ongoingmoment #architecturephotography #downtown #cloudphotography #line #composition #light #fading #skies #dutchangle #minuit #architecture #gris #leadinglines #blackabdwhite #ClassicMono #wideangle
You look at the photo and you can Mingus’ melancholy tribute, ‘Goodbye Porkpie Hat’.
A brilliant portrait need not include the subject; Herman Leonard's portrait of Lester Young.
#portraitphotography #porkpiehat #smoke #light #dodge #burn #essence #presence #absence #HermanLeonard #CharlesMingus #GoodbyePorkPieHat #GeoffDyer #ButBeautiful #Irony #Sweetness #BillieHoliday #jazz
architecture: blue to gold at twilight
#azure #blue #fujivelvia100 #fujifilm #blue #hotel #geoffdyer #ongoingmoment #architecturephotography #downtown #cloudphotography #line #composition #suffering #light #fading #skies #dutchangle #twilight #architecture #yellow #ColorPhotography #wideangle
Idea for a photography show. Eggleston & Leiter. One theme would be for the former showing how to produce color that is warm and enveloping, the latter color that is sharp and isolates the objects within the frame. Thoughts? Photo is by Eggleston #colophotography #film #colorphoto #geoffdyer
“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
—Ornette Coleman
#jazz #theimperfectart #tedgioia #burden #improvisation #ornettecoleman #geoffdyer #butbeautiful
