Geoff Dyer

How I fell in love with the blues

28 May 2022 9:00 am

I was never into the blues that much. I listened to a bit of Roy Buchanan and Rory Gallagher but…

This is cinema as car ad, says Geoff Dyer: News of the World reviewed

13 February 2021 9:00 am

It’s a premise with plenty of previous. Children whose parents were murdered by Indians on the frontier of the American…

I was born to be on this Bob Dylan podcast, says Geoff Dyer

12 October 2019 9:00 am

Podcasts will soon be like porn. Every interest, desire or idle flicker of curiosity will have been anticipated and catered…

On photography, shrines and Maradona: Geoff Dyer’s Neapolitan pilgrimage

7 September 2019 9:00 am

At the Villa Pignatelli in Naples there is an exhibition by Elisa Sighicelli: photographs of bits and pieces of antiquity…

‘The Yucca Motel’, 1995, by Fred Sigman

Geoff Dyer on the poetry of motels

22 June 2019 9:00 am

It’s to be expected. You take photographs in order to document things — Paris in the case of Eugène Atget…

Diary

6 August 2016 9:00 am

I was born in 1958 and turned 58 in June, so for the next five months my age coincides with…

Diary

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

I was born in 1958 and turned 58 in June, so for the next five months my age coincides with…

Beat echoes

23 July 2016 9:00 am

Laid out flat, running the length of the exhibition, the original scroll of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road forms the…