Rob Doyle review threshold-chasing elusive chemical peaks

Well before the advent of autofiction in the English-language, Geoff Dyer found out the advantage of keeping shtum about what you are up to, genre-wise. The novel, Essay, Memoir? Let the readers decide; he is simply writing. Works such as 1997's Out of Sheer Rage, about not writing a biography of DH Lawrence, or 2003's druggy travelogue Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, owe their appeal mainly to this frank lack of ar....