- 416 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Alive with insight, delight and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this book offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography, music. Across ten years' worth of essays, Working the Room spans the photography of Martin Parr and the paintings of Turner, the writing of Scott Fitzgerald and the criticism of Susan Sontag, and includes extensive personal pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block' among many others. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
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Index
- Abou-Khalil, Rabih 1, 2, 3
- Abrahams, Chris 1
- Ackerman, Michael 1, 2, 3
- Ackroyd, Heather 1
- Agee, James 1, 2
- Ainslie, Ben 1, 2
- Aldington, Richard 1, 2
- Alemu, Elfenesh 1
- Allen, Woody 1
- Amis, Martin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Anderson, Jon Lee 1
- Andreas-SalomƩ, Lou 1
- Andrews, Henry 1
- Apollinaire, Guillaume 1
- Arbus, Diane 1, 2, 3, 4
- Armstrong, Louis 1
- Artaud, Antonin 1
- Ashbery, John 1
- Auden, W.H. 1, 2, 3, 4
- AugƩ, Marc 1
- Autio, Narelle 1, 2
- Avedon, Richard 1, 2, 3
- Dardis, Thomas 1
- DaVinci, Leonardo 1
- Davis, Art 1
- Davis, Miles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
- Dawson, Les 1
- Degas, Edgar 1
- DeJohnette, Jack 1, 2
- DeLillo, Don 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Jacques Henri Lartigue and The Discovery of India
- Ruth Orkinās āVE Dayā
- Richard Avedon
- Larry Burrows
- Enrique Metinides
- Jacob Holdtās America
- Martin Parrās Small World
- Joel Sternfeldās Utopian Visions
- Alec Soth: Riverrun
- Michael Ackerman
- Trent Parke
- Miroslav TichĆ½
- 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 Chatterleyās 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 McEwan: 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 KapuÅciÅskiās African Life
- W.G. Sebald, Bombing and Thomas Bernhard
- Regarding the Achievement of Others: Ā 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 ā¦
- On Being an Only Child
- Sacked
- On the Roof
- Readerās Block
- My Life as a Gatecrasher
- Something Didnāt Happen
- Otherwise Known as the Human Condition Ā (with particular reference to Donut Plant donuts)
- Of Course
- Sources and Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright