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:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD 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 TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250602T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250602T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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:20260819T060247 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240203T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20240130T033806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T033919Z UID:2699-1706976000-1706983200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:WINOGRAND COLOR! Arcana Books\, Culver City\, CA DESCRIPTION:Michael Almereyda and Geoff Dyer will be discussing the photography of Garry Winogrand on the occasion of Winogrand Color!\, a new book that presents one hundred and fifty photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography by the American film director\, Michael Almereyda and former Museum of Modern Art curator\, Susan Kismaric. It is the first monograph dedicated to the artist’s rarely seen color work. \n Saturday\, Feb 3rd 2024\, from 4:00 – 6:00 PM. There will also be a book signing. \nFor more information visit the Arcana Books website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/winogrand-color-arcana-books-culver-city-ca/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240128T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20240130T033245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T033313Z UID:2696-1706169600-1706461200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Hay Festival\, Cartagena\, Colombia DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Hay Festival in Cartagena talking about his latest book The Last Days of Roger Federer. For more information visit the festival website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/hay-festival-cartagena-colombia-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231125T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20231125T150000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20231105T203207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231105T203410Z UID:2687-1700920800-1700924400@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Georgetown Literary Festival\, Penang\, Malaysia DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be speaking with Eddin Khoo at the Georgetown Literary Festival\, Penang\, Malaysia\, on November 25th\, 2023 at 2pm at Loft 29\, Main Hall. For more information visit the festival website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/georgetown-literary-festival-penang-malaysia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231114T193000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20231105T202719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231105T202719Z UID:2685-1699984800-1699990200@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer in conversation with Maya Jasanoff at Harvard University DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be discussing his work at Harvard University in a conversation led by Maya Jasanoff. For more information visit Harvard’s website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/geoff-dyer-in-conversation-with-maya-jasanoff-at-harvard-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231112T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231112T183000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20231110T233058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231110T233257Z UID:2691-1699810200-1699813800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Pictures of the Empty Page at First Light Bookstore\, Austin\, Texas DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer\, Stephen Harrigan\, & Elizabeth Crook will be in conversation with George Getschow to discuss the life and work of Larry McMurtry. For more information about the event visit the bookstore website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/pictures-of-the-empty-page-at-first-light-bookstore-austin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231112T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231112T143000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20231105T201938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231105T201938Z UID:2683-1699795800-1699799400@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Texas Book Festival DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin\, speaking about his latest book The Last Days of Roger Federer. The event takes place at 1.45pm on Sunday\, November 12th 2023. For more information visit the website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/texas-book-festival/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231014T170000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20231008T200059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231008T200632Z UID:2678-1697097600-1697302800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Folio International Literary Festival\, Obidas\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at the Folio International Literary Festival in Obidas\, Portugal from 12-15 October 2023. For more information visit the festival website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/folio-international-literary-festival-obidas-portugal/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230803T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230803T200000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20230714T090717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230714T090717Z UID:2671-1691089200-1691092800@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley & Geoff Dyer: After the Funeral\, LRB Bookshop\, London DESCRIPTION:In Tessa Hadley’s new collection\, After the Funeral (Jonathan Cape)\, small events have huge consequences. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally dense\, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom\, power and desire\, convention and subversion\, reality and dreams. \nHadley will be in conversation with Geoff Dyer. \nFor more information visit the bookshop website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/tessa-hadley-geoff-dyer-after-the-funeral-lrb-bookshop-london/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230720T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230720T213000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20230714T091116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230714T091116Z UID:2675-1689883200-1689888600@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Passa Porta\, Brussels\, Belgium DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer is one of the great daredevils of British literature. He stubbornly refuses to write the same book twice\, breaking new ground each time. His boundless curiosity has produced classics on subjects as diverse as film (Zona on Tarkovsky’s Stalker)\, jazz (But beautiful) and World War I (The Missing of the Somme). In his latest book\, The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings\, he describes in a most entertaining way the last works and years of some of his favourite artists. \nWhen does the end set in? In his new book\, Geoff Dyer looks for the beginning of the end in the careers of beloved artists\, musicians and sportspeople. In his familiar pointed style\, Dyer writes about Friedrich Nietzsche’s mental crisis\, J.M.W. Turner’s almost abstract final paintings and Bob Dylan’s never-ending tour. So does it never end? Sometimes it does\, but when? In his sharp and jesting studies\, the writer spares no one\, not even himself. \n“Tennis\, jazz\, Dylan\, movies\, drugs\, Nietzsche\, Beethoven. So why am I laughing? Because Geoff Dyer once again melds commentary and observation with intellect and wit. Bouncing between criticism and memoir\, Dyer is one of the few writers whose paragraphs I can immediately reread and get more from. The twists\, turns\, and delights abound\, and when you finally put the book down you think\, ‘Oh\, yes\, I’ve always been this smart\, haven’t I?’”\n STEVE MARTIN \nInterviewer and booklover Melissa Giardina talks to the man who\, not entirely unjustly\, has been described as ‘possibly Britain’s best prose writer’ (New York Magazine). \nFor more information visit the Passa Porta website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/passa-porta-brussels-belgium/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T200000 DTSTAMP:20260819T060247 CREATED:20230714T090225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230714T090441Z UID:2666-1689706800-1689710400@geoffdyer.com SUMMARY:Daunts Bookshop\, Marylebone\, London DESCRIPTION:Geoff will be at Daunts\, Marylebone in London\, to talk about his latest book The Last Days of Roger Federer. \nIn this endlessly stimulating investigation\, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers\, painters\, athletes and musicians who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence\, he examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin\, J.W. Turner’s paintings of abstracted light\, John Coltrane’s cosmic melodies\, Jean Rhys’s return from the dead (while still alive) and Beethoven’s final quartets. Oh\, and there’s writing about Roger Federer and tennis too. \nThe author Michael Bracewell will be joining Geoff in conversation. Bracewell’s books are just as wide-ranging\, beguiling and inspiring as Dyer’s. His non-fiction books include Souvenir\, Re-Make/Re-Model and he made a very welcome return to fiction this year with the sublime Unfinished Business. \nThis is the perfect post-Wimbledon event – so do come and join us for a wonderful evening. \nFor more information visit the bookshop website HERE. URL:http://geoffdyer.com/event/daunts-bookshop-marylebone-london-7pm/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR