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Reviewed: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi By Geoff Dyer

On June 19, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Pantheon Books, 2009
Reviewed by Willa Cmiel

Extremes are dangerous. Extreme sports, extreme dieting, extreme Calvinism, what have you, they all come with consequences. In Geoff Dyer’s diptyched novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Jeff Atman’s life exists under no extreme, not even extreme slackerism. As a freelance writer for Kulcher magazine, rather than abandoning work as he fantasizes with the click of a “send” button, he takes a walk, he cuts his hair, he pouts, and he goes to Venice to interview the ex-wife of a washed-up rock star, “publicizing…the astonishing feat of her [...]

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