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Article: GEOFF DYER'S MEANDERINGS TAKE READERS DOWN A HILARIOUS ROAD.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 7, 2003
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Byline: ANDREA HOAG Special to the P-I
In "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It" (Pantheon, 272 pages, $22), Geoff Dyer offers not a fitness manual, but a travel bible for modern-day slackers. This collection of 11 essays takes the art of hipster adventure to a level rarely seen since Jack Kerouac fashioned a series of cross-country treks into classic literary fare in "On the Road."
In his first journey, Dyer spends three months in New Orleans attempting a novel, while gathering the courage to hop a freight train. As the book's name implies, Dyer undertakes many things that never quite work out - neither the book nor the illicit train ride ...