BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Geoff Dyer - ECPv6.0.9//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Geoff Dyer X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://geoffdyer.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Geoff Dyer REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD TZID:America/Kentucky/Louisville BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T120000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250611T211800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T211800Z UID:2849-1750503600-1750507200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Deep Water Festival\, NY DESCRIPTION:On Becoming\nSusan Choi\, Douglas Stuart\, Geoff Dyer\nLauded novelist Susan Choi’s new Flashlight (2025) explores a girl’s confrontation with loss and memory after her father’s sudden disappearance revealing how childhood trauma can splinter a family. Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart portrays adolescence in working-class Glasgow in his acclaimed novels Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo\, while critic and writer Geoff Dyer adds a non-fiction perspective with Homework\, reflecting on his own coming-of-age in 1960s–70s England during a time of post-war upheaval and rapid social change. Together\, these three writers will discuss the fragile yet resilient nature of people navigating fractured worlds. From intimate family struggles in suburban America and inner-city Glasgow to the societal upheavals of post-war England\, each author’s work illuminates how memory and adversity shape their protagonists’ identities. This panel will bridge continents and decades as Choi\, Stuart\, and Dyer explore how memory\, family\, and social environments indelibly shape a person\, and how even in the most fractured of worlds\, people find the resilience to survive and forge their own identity. \nFor more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/deep-water-festival-ny/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250611T205758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T205821Z UID:2845-1750271400-1750275000@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:McNally Jackson Seaport\, New York DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer will be speaking with Lili Anolik about his new memoir Homework\, named a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vulture | The Guardian | Financial Times | The Observer | The Times (London) | Literary Hub \n“A picture of postwar England unlike any other . . . A highly original memoir that will provoke\, amuse\, beguile—and endure.” —Antony Quinn\, Financial Times \n“Homework is wonderful Geoff-Dyer writing\, which we’ve all learned to crave; something to delight and to move us and to edify us on every page. I find him an irresistible writer.” —Richard Ford \nA portrait of a young boy\, who keeps passing exams—and of a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s. \nThe only child of a sheet-metal worker and a dinner lady who worked at the canteen of the local school\, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of the Depression and the Second World War. But far from being a story of hardship overcome\, this loving memoir is a celebration of opportunities afforded by the postwar settlement\, of which the author was an unconscious beneficiary. The crux comes at the age of eleven with the exam that decided the future of generations of British schoolkids: secondary modern or the transformative possibilities of grammar school? One of the lucky winners\, Dyer goes to grammar school\, where he develops a love of literature (and beer and prog rock). \nMapping a path from primary school through the tribulations of teenage sport\, gig-going\, romantic fumblings\, fights (well\, getting punched in the face)\, and other misadventures with comic affection\, Homework takes us to the threshold of university\, where Dyer gets the first intimations that a short geographical journey—just forty miles—might extend to the length of a life. \nRecalling an eroded but strangely resilient England\, Homework traces\, in perfectly phrased and hilarious detail\, roots that extend into the deep foundations of class society. \nGeoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books\, including The Last Days of Roger Federer\, Out of Sheer Rage\, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It\, Zona\,See/Saw\, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dyer lives in Los Angeles\, where he is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. \nLili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a writer at large for Air Mail. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s\, Esquire\, and The Paris Review\, among other publications. She is the creator of the podcast Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College. Her latest book\, Didion & Babitz\, was published by Scribner November 12\, 2024. \nFor more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/mcnally-jackson-seaport-new-york/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250616T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250616T203000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250611T205433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T205433Z UID:2842-1750102200-1750105800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:92 Street Y\, New York DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer and critic Geoff Dyer — “a national treasure” (Zadie Smith) — will be speaking with Sloane Crosley for the launch of his new memoir\, Homework. \nBeloved for his brilliantly ranging\, hilarious criticism and essays — Steve Martin calls Out of Sheer Rage\, an exasperated study of D.H. Lawrence\, “the funniest book I have ever read” — Geoff Dyer turns his critical powers inward in Homework\, his first memoir. With candor\, heart\, and wit\, Homework tells the story of Dyer’s boyhood education as the only child of a sheet-metal worker and a school lunch lady in postwar England — from the tribulations of teenage romance\, prog rock and sports to the encounters with books and literature that transform his life. \nRecounting an eroded but resilient England\, Homework is more than a portrait of the essayist as a young man — it also traces\, in hilarious detail\, the strains and rumblings of a painfully striated class society that reverberate to this day. In a special reading in celebration of Homework’s launch\, hear Dyer tell the story of his life as only he can. \n“Moving\, atmospheric\, truthful\, perceptive\, and hilariously funny.” — Tessa Hadley \n“A masterpiece.”— Billy Collins \n“This Gloucestershire lad turned boomer Proust is his own man\, and he has written a highly original memoir that will provoke\, amuse\, beguile — and endure.” — Financial Times \nFor more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/92-street-y-new-york/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T200000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T162019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T162019Z UID:2797-1749754800-1749758400@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Shakespeare & Co\, Paris DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Shakespeare & Co in Paris to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/shakespeare-co-paris/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250611T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250611T183000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T161854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T161854Z UID:2795-1749663000-1749666600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Blackwell’s\, Oxford DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at Blackwell’s in Oxford to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/blackwells-oxford/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T161715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T161715Z UID:2793-1749580200-1749583800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Waterstones\, Nottingham DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Waterstones in Nottingham to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/waterstones-nottingham/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250606T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250608T190000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T161535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T161535Z UID:2791-1749232800-1749409200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Borris Festival\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Borris Festival in Ireland to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/borris-festival-ireland/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250605T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250605T203000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T161416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T161416Z UID:2789-1749151800-1749155400@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Topping & Co\, Edinburgh DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Topping & Co in Edinburgh to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/topping-co-edinburgh/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250604T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250604T203000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T161217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T161238Z UID:2787-1749063600-1749069000@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Waterstones Manchester - Deansgate DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Waterstones in Manchester Deansgate to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/waterstones-manchester-deansgate/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250603T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250603T203000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T161027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T161027Z UID:2785-1748977200-1748982600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer at Naunton Park Primary School\, Cheltenham DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer returns to his primary school in Cheltenham to discuss his memoir\, Homework.\nOrganised by Rossiter Books\, Cheltenham\nVenue: Naunton Park Primary School URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-at-naunton-park-primary-school-cheltenham/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250602T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250602T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T160754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T160810Z UID:2783-1748889000-1748892600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Foyles\, London DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at Foyles in London to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/foyles-london/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250531T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250531T213000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T160636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T160636Z UID:2781-1748723400-1748727000@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Hay Festival\, UK DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Hay Festival to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/hay-festival-uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250529T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T160523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T160523Z UID:2779-1748545200-1748550600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Waterstones Brighton DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Waterstones in Brighton to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit their website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/waterstones-brighton/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250528T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250528T203000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T160252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T160307Z UID:2777-1748458800-1748464200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:LRB Bookshop\, London DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the LRB Bookshop in London to discuss his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/lrb-bookshop-london-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T160029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T160029Z UID:2775-1748368800-1748374200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:How to Academy\, The Conduit\, London DESCRIPTION:Geoff returns to How To Academy on the publication of his new book Homework: A Memoir to tell the story of his childhood and coming of age in 60s and 70s Britain: a country shaped by the aftermath of the Second World War but accelerating towards change. \nHe was born in Cheltenham in the late fifties\, the only child of a dinner lady and a planning engineer. Raised in a working-class area\, Geoff and his mates found much joy recreating battles with their beloved Tommy guns\, kicking a beachball around until its untimely death\, and collecting anything and everything they could find; football cards\, conkers and Action Man figures. When Geoff passes his 11-plus exams he gets in to a Cheltenham Grammar School\, a school which drastically changes the trajectory of his life. \nDon’t miss this chance to travel back in time with one of the wittiest and most delightful flaneurs this country has ever produced. \nFor more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/how-to-academy-the-conduit-london-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250525T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250525T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250315T155748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250315T155748Z UID:2773-1748188800-1748192400@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Bath Literary Festival DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Bath Literary Festival to talk about his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information visit the festival website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/bath-literary-festival/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250418T140237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T140237Z UID:2818-1746536400-1746550800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer at UC Riverside Writers Week DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be taking part in UC Riverside Writers Week\, reading and discussing his work including his new book Homework: A Memoir. For more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-at-uc-riverside-writers-week/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250418T135514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T135734Z UID:2814-1746288000-1746291600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:The Library at MAF Presents: Geoff Dyer in conversation with David St. John DESCRIPTION:A very special discussion between writer Geoff Dyer and poet David St. John will take place in the MAF Library at 4PM reflecting on Dyer’s decade as Writer in Residence at USC. During this highly productive period Dyer wrote White Sands (2016)\, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand (2018) and The Last Days of Roger Federer and other endings (2022) amongst others. \nGeoff Dyer’s many books include But Beautiful (about jazz)\, Out of Sheer Rage (about D H Lawrence)\, a history of photography\, The Ongoing Moment\, the novel Jeff in Venice\, Death in Varanasi and\, most recently\, The Last Days of Roger Federer (hardly about tennis at all). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, his books have been translated into twenty-four languages. For the last ten years he has been a Writer in Residence at USC. A new book Homework ( memoir) will be published in June 2025 by FSG. \nDavid St. John has received The Rome Prize Fellowship and The Award in Literature\, both from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the O. B. Hardison Prize from The Folger Shakespeare Library; and the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of many collections of poetry\, most recently\, Prayer For My Daughter\, as well as a prose collection entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. David St. John has written two libretti: for the opera based on his book\, The Face\, by Donald Crockett\, and the choral symphony\, The Shore\, by Frank Ticheli. He was also co-editor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. A past Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, David St. John is University Professor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of Southern California. \nThe event is free with General Admission tickets. For more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/the-library-at-maf-presents-geoff-dyer-in-conversation-with-david-st-john/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250416T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250416T190000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250321T005810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T005810Z UID:2809-1744824600-1744830000@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:A Conversation with Geoff Dyer at UC Irvine\, CA DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer is widely known as one of the greatest writers of his generation. For this event\, he will discuss his most recent work “The Last Days of Roger Federer (and Other Endings)”. \nRegarding The Last Days of Roger Federer\, Geoff asks: How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What if the end comes early in a writer’s life? How to keep going even as the ability to do so diminishes? Geoff sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers\, painters\, musicians\, and sports stars who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. He considers Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin\, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs\, J. M. W. Turner’s proto-abstract paintings of blazing light\, Jean Rhys’s late-life resurgence\, John Coltrane’s final works. Ranging from Burning Man to Beethoven\, from Eve Babitz to William Basinski\, from Annie Dillard to De Chirico\, Dyer’s study of last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty — and the sudden rejuvenation offered by books\, films and music discovered late in life. Praised by Tom Bissell as “perhaps the most bafflingly great prose writer at work in the English language today\,” Dyer has now blended criticism\, memoir\, and badinage of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer’s passions\, and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work. \nFor more information about the event click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/a-conversation-with-geoff-dyer-at-uc-irvine-ca/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250329T220000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250329T230000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250321T010054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T010054Z UID:2811-1743285600-1743289200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Across the Horizon: Big Ears Festival\, Knoxville\, Tennesee DESCRIPTION:Across the Horizon is a bold exploration of where Americana’s roots intersect with the boundless expanse of ambient music. Curated by Bob Holmes and SUSS\, this unique program invites you into a realm where sound becomes landscape\, and music transcends genre\, inviting listeners to wander through vast\, uncharted spaces of sonic possibility. Featuring performances that evoke open skies\, endless roads\, and a sense of drifting between worlds\, ambient music’s expansive drones\, shimmering textures\, and meditative pulses meet the resonant echoes of Americana’s pedal steels\, guitars\, and haunting melodies\, creating a space where time seems to stretch and bend. Geoff will be taking part in the Saturday night immersive event. For more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/across-the-horizon-big-ears-festival-knoxville-tennesee/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250329T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250329T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20250209T195715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250209T195715Z UID:2767-1743235200-1743267600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Billy Collins & Geoff Dyer at Big Ears Festival\, Knoxville\, Tennessee DESCRIPTION:Billy Collins & Geoff Dyer join together for an presentation of poetry\, readings\, and conversation. \nBilly Collins’ most recent collection of poems is Water\, Water (Random House\, 2024). He served as U.S\, Poet Laureate and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. An illustrated gathering of his poems about dogs titled Dog Show is forthcoming. \nBilly Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The American Scholar\, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight. \nGeoff Dyer’s many books include the novel Jeff in Venice\, Death in Varanasi\, White Sands\, The Last Days of Roger Federer and But Beautiful (described by Keith Jarrett as ‘the only book about jazz I have recommended to my friends’ and by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as ‘one of my favorite books’). Homework\, a memoir\, will be published by FSG in June. His books have been translated into 24 languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is a Writer in Residence at USC. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/billy-collins-geoff-dyer-at-big-ears-festival-knoxville-tennessee/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241122T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241122T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20241030T124649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T124649Z UID:2727-1732298400-1732303800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer and Laura Fernandez: The desire to travel: being a tourist in the 21st century\, Barcelona DESCRIPTION:Writer Geoff Dyer talks to journalist and writer Laura Fernández about the meaning and longing for travel at a time when tourism has become a global phenomenon. \nTourism is one of the most unique phenomena of our time\, with a powerful symbolic universe that activates codes\, beliefs and desires deeply rooted in our society\, at the same time that it is an economic sector of great impact on a global scale. The English writer Geoff Dyer has reflected on it in works such as Amor en Venecia \, muerte en Benares (Literatura Random House\, 2010) or Arenas blancas (Literatura Random House\, 2017)\, where he delves into the experience of the contemporary traveler\, often caught in the paradox of aspiring to a unique and authentic experience\, while being aware that it is part of a carefully planned set. In this session\, Dyer talks with the writer and journalist Laura Férnandez\, who recently published Hay un monstruo en el lago (En Debate\, 2024)\, a reflection on the construction of the tourist narrative around the myth of Loch Ness\, and together they will seek answers to questions of our time: what does it mean to travel? Why do we visit the places we visit? What is behind this experience that is so deeply appealing to us? \nWith this session\, the CCCB starts a program to reflect on one of the most characteristic phenomena of the present which\, with a profound impact at an economic\, social and environmental level\, poses great challenges that affect our life in the city. This program has the support of the Diputació de Barcelona and the Barcelona City Council. \nYou can find out more information HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-and-laura-fernandez-the-desire-to-travel-being-a-tourist-in-the-21st-century-barcelona/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241119T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241119T183000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20241116T132518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241116T132518Z UID:2735-1732041000-1732041000@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Gonzaga University\, Florence DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 19 November 2024\, at 6:30 pm\, at Gonzaga University in Florence\, in via Giorgio La Pira 11/13\, the appointment with GIF Talks: Meetings with writers in Florence returns. This edition\, in collaboration with Il Saggiatore\, will see Alessandro Raveggi\, writer and professor\, in conversation with the British author Geoff Dyer. \nGeoff Dyer (Cheltenham\, 1958) is considered one of the most important contemporary English writers. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and of the Royal Society of Literature\, his works of fiction and essays have been translated into twenty-four languages. Il Saggiatore has published White Sands (2017)\, The Color of Memory (2017)\, Zona (2018)\, But Beautiful (2019)\, Out of Sheer Rage (2021)\, The Ongoing Moment (2022) and The Last Days of Roger Federer (2023). A new book\, Homework (an autobiography) will be published in Spring 2025. \nThe meeting with the author will be in English\, with possible consecutive translation into Italian. \nFor more information: 055 215226 – gif@gonzaga.edu\nAnd also HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/gonzaga-university-florence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T210000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20241030T124455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T124455Z UID:2725-1731439800-1731445200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Athenaeum Goes British: Geoff Dyer\, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:It is time for the first edition of Athenaeum Goes British. And we are delighted to announce that our first guest will be the British writer Geoff Dyer! \nJoin Athenaeum Boekhandel Spui \, on Tuesday\, November 12\, at 7.30 pm\, for an evening with Geoff Dyer. Together with bookseller Lola Storm\, he discusses his work and British literature in general. Is Geoff Dyer a typical British writer? What does a British writer actually entail? And is there a difference between British and English literature? Do Dyer’s books fall under a certain genre? Or does he himself dislike genres? How does he look at his idols and when does he decide to use them for a book? It promises to be an in-depth\, interesting and British evening! \nBuy a ticket now here for 5 euros (including a drink)! \nDate is Tuesday November 12\nWalk-in from 19.00\nThe program starts at 19.30\nLanguage is in English\nTickets are 5 euros and can be purchased HERE! URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/athenaeum-goes-british-geoff-dyer-amsterdam/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T123000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20241030T124234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T124838Z UID:2723-1731236400-1731241800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:A Literary Morning with Geoff Dyer\, Antwerp DESCRIPTION:During November Book Month we welcome more than 100 authors in Antwerp. On Sunday 10 November\, British writer Geoff Dyer will be a guest at the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library during the bookstore weekend. \nHe will talk about his successful book ‘Uit pure rage’. In it he describes in a witty and intelligent way his years of struggle to bring his Lawrence book to a successful conclusion. Dyer travels the world while he struggles not only with his fascinating subject\, but also with the wonderful distractions and pressing fears that characterize the life of a writer. \nSunday\, November 10\, 2024 at 11 am\nNottebohm Hall of the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library\, entrance via Hendrik Conscienceplein 4\, 2000 Antwerp\nEnglish lecture\nFree admission\nReserve your spot via leni.albertyn@antwerpen.be \nMore information can be found HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/a-literary-morning-with-geoff-dyer-antwerp/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20241104T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20241104T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20241030T125222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T125514Z UID:2730-1730736000-1730739600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Charleston Literary Festival\, South Carolina DESCRIPTION:Charleston Literary Festival is a world-class literary festival with an international edge based in the heart of Charleston\, South Carolina. Geoff will be there with an event on Monday November 4th – you can book tickets HERE. \nFor more information about the programme click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/charleston-literary-festival-south-carolina/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240830T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240901T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20240823T164454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T164454Z UID:2720-1725004800-1725210000@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer at FLIP\, Naples\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be speaking at the Independent Literature Festival (Flip) in Pomigliano d’Arco\, in Naples. The festival takes place from August 30th to Sept 1st. The festival events will take place inside the Flip Village\, set up for the occasion in the gardens of the Giovanni Paolo II Public Park. For more information visit the festival website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-at-flip-naples-italy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T220000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20240530T132251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T132251Z UID:2716-1718566200-1718575200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer: Reading and Live Music\, FestiValle OFF\, Agrigento\, Sicily DESCRIPTION:Music and literature comes together in this event as part of 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝗙𝗙 in collaboration with the 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗶 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲!\nGeoff Dyer will read from But Beautiful\, his book about jazz\, and there will be music played by special guests. For more information click HERE. \nSunday Jun 16th\, 7.30pm\nThe Factories (Orestiadi)\nAddress: Via San Francesco d’Assisi\, 1\, 92100 Agrigento AG\nExternal courtyard\, bar service and tasting URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-reading-and-live-music-festivalle-off-agrigento-sicily/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20240530T101511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T101532Z UID:2713-1717696800-1717702200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer in Conversation with Peter Mitchell\, Leeds Art Gallery\, UK DESCRIPTION:In this very special conversation event\, acclaimed author Geoff Dyer will be speaking with photographer Peter Mitchell\, whose life’s work is the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. Geoff has previously written about Peter’s work for The New York Times Magazine and in his book ‘See/Saw: Looking at Photographs’ (2021) reflecting – “The first picture by Mitchell I ever saw had the same quality of oneiric lucidity associated with Ghirri: a red telephone box amid the desolate and lyrical emptiness of a housing estate in Leeds\, something dropped out of time in the middle of nowhere\, which — a fundamental lesson of photography — is always somewhere.” \nThe galleries will be open late this evening for attendees to see the exhibition. The exhibition can be accessed until 6pm and then after the talk finishes until 8pm. \nFor more information click HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-in-conversation-with-peter-mitchell-leeds-art-gallery-uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240323T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240323T160000 DTSTAMP:20260819T083659 CREATED:20240321T172447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T172608Z UID:2708-1711206000-1711209600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Bombay Beach Biennale\, Salton Sea\, CA DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be giving a talk about JMW Turner’s White Gold at the 2024 Bombay Beach Biennale. For more information check the Biennale’s Instagram and Website. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/bombay-beach-biennale-saltoun-sea-ca/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR