Tag Archives: Geoff Dyer

Is the Personal Essay Hipper Than Thou?

Janet Steen

Friday, March 15, 2013

The nonfiction trend goes on. Separating the bad from the good from the great is the tricky part. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged Adam Kirch, Ali Smith, blogging, David Sedaris, Davy Rothbart, Donald Barthelme, E.M. Cioran, Facebook, Geoff Dyer, Gore Vidal, H.L. Mencken, Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Marylinne Robinson, Michelle Orange, Montaigne, Sloane Crosley, The New Republic, TMI, Tom Bissell | 7 Comments

The Stealth Fight Against Stupidity

Janet Steen

Friday, June 8, 2012

In which Janet Steen dares to be smart — and shows us how. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Fence, Gene Hackman, Geoff Dyer, Georges Perec, Glee, Howard Zinn, Jennifer Egan, Noam Chomsky, Paul Auster, Susan Sontag, Terry Gross, The Literary Review, The Lowbrow Reader, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker | 15 Comments

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