Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and many non-fiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage, Zona and, most recently, The Last Days of Roger Federer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Homework, a memoir, is forthcoming from Canongate in May 2025, and June 2025 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Doing the Work
Geoff Dyer
‘My life is full of regrets – I sometimes think I regret everything about my life – but I’ve never regretted the time spent riding the rails of Thatcher’s Britain.’
Geoff Dyer on conducting market research in the eighties.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 159
Being-in-the-World
Geoff Dyer
‘Even experienced users get scared because it’s so far out.’
Geoff Dyer on ageing and understanding the self.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Geoff Dyer | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Geoff Dyer
‘What kinds of writing aren’t travel writing?’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
God and Me
Geoff Dyer
‘All my religious experiences—if we can call them that—have been drug-related.’
Fiction | Issue 91
White Sands
Geoff Dyer
‘Now that we were out of danger it seemed possible that there had never been any danger.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91
On the Roof
Geoff Dyer
‘Destiny, I think, is not what lies in store for you; it's what is already stored up inside you—and it's as patient as death.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91
Hotel Oblivion
Geoff Dyer
‘The mushrooms made an unexpected comeback and all the accumulated confusion of the day burst in upon us and left us stranded in an alien city’.