Geoff Dyer & Mark Ford: The Last Days of Roger Federer
<p>As he enters late middle age, Geoff Dyer turns, in <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-last-days-of-roger-federer-and-other-endings-geoff-dyer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Last Days of Roger Federer</em></a>, to the question of late – or, indeed, last – style. Lisa Appignanesi writes, ‘Geoff Dyer's wry meditations on mortality and late style have a dazzling way of dispelling gloom. Nietzsche and the Turin horse, vaporised Turner, dolorous Dylan, antics on courts and at Burning Man, Dyer's <em>Last Days</em> had me laughing aloud, a sure signal of deft seriousness. What is there to say except if this is late Dyer, it's great Dyer.’ Geoff is in conversation with the poet and critic Mark Ford.</p><br><p>Find more upcoming events at the Bookshop here: <a href="http://lrb.me/upcomingevents" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lrb.me/upcomingevents</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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As he enters late middle age, Geoff Dyer turns, in The Last Days of Roger Federer, to the question of late – or, indeed, last – style. Lisa Appignanesi writes, ‘Geoff Dyer's wry meditations on mortality and late style have a dazzling way of dispelling gloom. Nietzsche and the Turin horse, vaporised Turner, dolorous Dylan, antics on courts and at Burning Man, Dyer's Last Days had me laughing aloud, a sure signal of deft seriousness. What is there to say except if this is late Dyer, it's great Dyer.’ Geoff is in conversation with the poet and critic Mark Ford.
Find more upcoming events at the Bookshop here: http://lrb.me/upcomingevents
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