Geoff Dyer: Reader’s Block
Monday, February 14th, 2011Geoff Dyer is the author of But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Paris Trance, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. He lives in England.
The following essay is excerpted from Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews, coming from Graywolf Press in March 2011.
Don’t read much now.
Philip Larkin, “A Study of Reading Habits”
Could I have become a symptom, or is this an entirely personal indisposition?
