Events

F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic of 20th-century literature, and its themes of glamour, consumption and questionable morality are resonant in our own time. With the staged performance Gatz hitting the West End and a new film due for release shortly, writers, critics and theatre makers discuss the enduring appeal of the novel and the ways in which it has influenced their own work.

Geoff Dyer will be giving a reading free and open to the public at The Englert Theatre at 7pm on October 3rd, with a reception to follow. Dyer, who is teaching this semester in the Nonfiction Writing Program in the English Department at the University of Iowa is the winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for his collection of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, as well as the winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize. He has written authoritatively and with great originality and insight about such disparate subjects as photography (The Ongoing Moment), jazz (But Beautiful), memory and forgetting (The Missing of the Somme), literary obsession (Out of Sheer Rage) and most recently, film (Zona).

Geoff Dyer will be doing several events at the Key West Literary Seminar which takes place across two long weekends. For more information visit KWLS.

Geoff will be speaking in several cities in Italy this November.

Geoff will be speaking at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia. For more information visit the festival website here.

Geoff will be discussing his book White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, as well as his other genre-defying books and his search for the most vivid of experiences. To find out more visit the Bookworm Literary Festival website here.

Geoff will be discussing his book about Tarkovsky and the film Stalker with the renowned film critic Mr. Wei Xidi. To find out more visit the Bookworm Literary Festival website here.

Geoff and Yalei will discuss the experience of having their work translated into different languages, the translation process itself, and challenges encountered along the way. As Geoff’s work is known as genre-smashing and often beyond typical categorization, they will also talk about the reactions that various titles received when they came into the hands of Chinese readers. To find out more visit the Bookworm Literary Festival website here.

Geoff will be discussing his book White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, as well as his other genre-defying books and his search for the most vivid of experiences. To find out more visit the Bookworm Literary Festival website here.

Geoff will be talking about his book White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World and his experiences ranging from the Lightning Field in New Mexico to a hunt for Gauguin’s ghost in Tahiti and the question of why we travel. To find out more and book tickets visit the Shanghai Literary Festival website here.

Geoff will be presenting his new book about the American photographer Garry Winogrand. Tickets are free but advance booking is required. Visit the Getty Center’s website here for more information.

Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, Geoff Dyer’s newest book The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand features one hundred photographs from the Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP). In addition to presenting the story of the book’s creation and his experiences researching at the CCP, Dyer will take us on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from Winogrand’s vast archive, with responses to the photographs that are unorthodox, funny, and eye-opening. For more information about this free event visit the CCP website here.