Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

One of the most versatile and important writers of our time, Dyer won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for his collection of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition.

He has written authoritatively and with great originality and insight about disparate subjects including photography in The Ongoing Moment, which won a Lannan Literary Award; jazz in But Beautiful, winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize; memory and forgetting in The Missing of the Somme; literary obsession in Out of Sheer Rage; and, most recently, film in Zona.

He is also the author of four novels, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters E.M. Forster Award

In 2011 he was writer-in-residence aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Bush in the Arabian Gulf. And he was the guest director at this year’s Telluride Film Festival.

For more information, visit his website.

The Nonfiction Writing Program is a graduate program of the UI Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For accommodations at the event, contact the Englert at 319-688-2653. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events, visit the new Arts Iowa website.