Events

Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, he has edited a selection of Lawrence's essays for Penguin. Subjects covered in this freewheeling volume include art, morality, obscenity, […]

Geoff will be attending this year's Kapittel Festival in Stavanger, Norway, from 18-22 September. This year his books White Sands and Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It are published in Norwegian. Geoff's event will be on 19 September at 6pm. For more information about the event and the festival click here.

From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazine, and Vogue, Fremman’s: California features stunning new work collected by editor John Freeman (himself a native of Sacramento) from a broad selection […]

MOLLY LAMBERT, GEOFF DYER AND TOSH BERMAN DISCUSS I USED TO BE CHARMING: THE REST OF EVE BABITZ From the 1970s through the 1990s, Eve Babitz wrote on a wild variety of topics for some of the biggest publications around, from Esquire to Vogue to The New York Times Book Review. I Used to Be […]

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 […]