Events

In new books about the making of two famous films of the 1960s, award-winning writers Geoff Dyer (Broadsword Calling Danny Home) and W. K. Stratton (The Wild Bunch) take us behind the scenes of Where Eagles Dare, starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. Loving homages by fans of these […]

Geoff will be at the Key West Literary Seminar in Florida, whose theme this year is Sports and Literature. Geoff will be giving the keynote lecture which opens the festival on Thursday 9th at 7.15pm. The lecture, entitled “Introductory Report from the Head Groundsman”, will be followed by a book signing. On Friday Geoff will […]

Geoff will be giving a public reading at UC Irvine, followed by a book signing. Geoff Dyer is widely considered one of the leading writers of his generation. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Dyer insouciantly mixes fiction and nonfiction, smuggling invented bits into the seams of his reported essays and stitching long threads […]

Geoff will be speaking at the Big Ears Festival, an annual music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. He and Ben Ratliff will be talking about writing about music, and Geoff will also be interviewing The Necks.

Geoff will be taking part in this year's Sun Valley Writers' Conference in Idaho.

Geoff Dyer on Dylan in the Madhouse (2005) Surprisingly, Bob Dylan first came to the attention of the British public through his role in a 1963 BBC TV play, The Madhouse on Castle Street. The tape was later wiped and has since become the holy grail of missing Dylan works. Joining the hunt, Arena uncovers […]

In the spirit of the intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh. Join the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment and ‘national treasure’ (Zadie Smith) for an illuminated history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. For information about this […]

Photographs provide a mirror to society, framing how we see things and revealing to us the myths that have shaped our histories. In this new talk with author Geoff Dyer we will look at how to read a photograph and the stories it can tell us about our past, present and ourselves. This event marks […]

English PEN and The London Library celebrate the energetic, fearless and fierce Rebecca West. 'Hard as nails… a cross between a charwoman and a gipsy, but as tenacious as a terrier, with flashing eyes… immense vitality… suspicion of intellectuals, and great intelligence…’ So said Virginia Woolf of Rebecca West, prolific author, journalist, literary critic, travel […]

Geoff Dyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and See/Saw, a tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair, gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment, and heir to Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag’s On Photography, and John Berger’s […]

Geoff Dyer will be discussing his new book The Last Days of Roger Federer, a beguiling meditation, in which he sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians and tennis stars. This event will be live streaming. For more information click HERE.

Few writers make us laugh–and think–as much as “effortlessly erudite” (The Boston Globe) polymath and self-described “malcontent” Geoff Dyer, whose dizzying scope of knowledge and passion ranges from jazz to photography to cinema to yoga to visual art…we could go on. His new book, The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, examines the […]