ASH Smyth interviews Geoff Dyer February 2012 The genre-defying British writer Geoff Dyer on how watching Tarkovsky’s Stalker on repeat turned into his most successful book. Photograph courtesy of Matt Stuart Geoff Dyer has always been rather keen on Am

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U-T San Diego | Democrats pose dilemma I good goose bumps when I read “State Democrats rolling into San Diego on road to election” (Feb. 10), about the Democrats’ hope for unfettered majorities in the California Legislature. The goose bumps I got were no