It’s difficult to categorize the writer Geoff Dyer. He’s written fiction, non-fiction, essays and criticism. He’s written on many different subjects: jazz, art, photography, film and history. He won the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism a few years ago. His latest book is called White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World. It’s a collection of mainly travel essays, and in several of them, he explores America and also Los Angeles. But what he’s really exploring is our mortality, what these places mean to us as a culture and what happens to them when we move on.
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