JESSE MONTGOMERY: Well, I’m sure it’ll be better than Romanian YouTube. That was a struggle.
GEOFF DYER: Yeah, as I say in the book, this was a film that has to be seen properly projected, and that seems to me to be part of what it’s about. It’s about the wonder of cinematic space, and time is manifest in that, blah, blah, blah. You know — all that Tarkovsky bollocks!
Full Stop’s Jesse Montgomery interviews Geoff Dyer

PULPHEAD NOTES: An Event with Geoff Dyer in New York

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On Friday March 9th, John Jeremiah Sullivan and Geoff Dyer will be in conversation at 192 Books. Here’s Dyer from a recent interview in Bookforum:

Failure is quite interesting, and it’s something I have a certain amount of experience with. I wasn’t a failure in the way lots of people are…

This should be done. By all. Nick will be there, and he’d love to meet you, dear readers!

Recently I came upon instances of three very different writers drawing on three very different movies to produce three odd and wondrous little books. The writers are Geoff Dyer, Don DeLillo, and Jonathan Lethem, who, for all their differences, have one thing in common. Each became bewitched by a movie that spoke so forcefully to him that he watched it again and again until it revealed all of its secrets and meanings, until he grasped what might be called the movie’s deep tissues.
Blink vs. Think: When a Movie Bewitches A Writer by Bill Morris
John Updike said: “Review the book, not the reputation”, but I think reputation works in two ways. On the one hand, you can be rather deferential; on the other hand, when you’ve got a certain reputation, people are eager to bring you down. To what extent is book reviewing a young person’s game?
Geoff Dyer, in conversation with Anna Baddeley and Emine Sane.
 

Source: Guardian

The book is also startlingly autobiographical. The Room in the movie is supposedly where you attain your deepest desire, which is, Dyer says, sort of the same as one’s greatest regret. “If so,” he writes, “then my greatest regret is, without doubt, one I share with the vast majority of middle-aged heterosexual men: that I’ve never had a three-way, never had sex with two women at once.”
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The book is also startlingly autobiographical. The Room in the movie is supposedly where you attain your deepest desire, which is, Dyer says, sort of the same as one’s greatest regret. “If so,” he writes, “then my greatest regret is, without doubt, one I share with the vast majority of middle-aged heterosexual men: that I’ve never had a three-way, never had sex with two women at once.”

“In Britain these days ‘respect’ is the most debased word in the English language; each year numerous murders result from the notion that the perpetrators had been treated with insufficient respect by someone whom they promptly stabbed. The same thing has been going on in America where, I’m guessing, the verb ‘to diss’ originated.” — Geoff Dyer’s Year In Reading 2011 [Image source]
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“In Britain these days ‘respect’ is the most debased word in the English language; each year numerous murders result from the notion that the perpetrators had been treated with insufficient respect by someone whom they promptly stabbed. The same thing has been going on in America where, I’m guessing, the verb ‘to diss’ originated.”

— Geoff Dyer’s Year In Reading 2011

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