Working the Room

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Geoff Dyer. Working the Room

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Jacques Henri Lartigue and The Discovery of India

Ruth Orkin’s ‘VE Day’

Richard Avedon

Larry Burrows

Enrique Metinides

Jacob Holdt’s America

Martin Parr’s Small World

Joel Sternfeld’s Utopian Visions

Alec Soth: Riverrun

Michael Ackerman

Trent Parke

Miroslav Tichý

Saving Grace: Todd Hido

Idris Khan

Edward Burtynsky

Turner and Memory

The Awakening of Stones: Rodin

The American Sublime

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night*

James Salter: The Hunters and Light Years

Tobias Wolff: Old School

Richard Ford: The Lay of the Land

Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke

Ian Mc Ewan: Atonement

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

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 Kapuściński’s African Life

W.G. Sebald, Bombing and Thomas Bernhard

Regarding the Achievement of Others: Susan Sontag

The Moral Art of War

Is Jazz Dead?

Editions of Contemporary Me

Fabulous Clothes

The 2004 Olympics

Sex and Hotels

What Will Survive of Us …

On Being an Only Child

Sacked

On the Roof

Reader’s Block

My Life as a Gatecrasher

Something Didn’t Happen

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with particular reference to Donut Plant donuts)

Of Course

Sources and Acknowledgements

Index

By the Same Author

Copyright

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For my mum and dad

Don Paterson

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Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke

Ian McEwan: Atonement

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