Piers Smith writes:
Geoff Dyer is a writer of fiction, travel and cultural matters
probably better known to British readers than US ones but still
deserving of a less offhand dismissal than 'someone named Geoff
Dyer.' '(picnic, lightning)' is often mentioned by admiring or
envious litteratuers.
Dyer's "But Beautiful" bowled me over. I then read a couple of
his other books and was less impressed. But he is certainly
correct about "(picnic, lightning)". How many other parentheses
have become the title of a book by a poet laureate?
Jay Livingston