Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of ten non-fiction books and four novels, including Out of Sheer Rage, Zona and, most recently, See/Saw. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles. ‘Being-in-the-World’ is an extract from The Last Days of Roger Federer, forthcoming from Canongate on 9 June 2022, and from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.
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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
God and Me
Geoff Dyer
‘All my religious experiences—if we can call them that—have been drug-related.’
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’.