Andrew Dermont of Big Think interviewed me about my new novel, The Arriviste, in which the narrator's there-goes-the-neighborhood response to the arrival of a new man next door in his exclusive New York suburb in 1970 boomerangs: a bottle and an Alfa Romeo later, they have an offshore...

This article is excerpted from the Boston Review.

The English writer Geoff Dyer's books defy formal classification when considered singly and defy generalization when considered together, or so the critical commonplace has it. "Geoff Dyer is the least categorisable of writers," says The Spectator. "Give him a genre...