Out of Sheer Rage

From: Fresh Air (NPR) | Date: June 16, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

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BARBARA BOGAEV, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Barbara Bogaev in for Terry Gross.

British author Geoff Dyer started out to write a study of D.H.

Lawrence, the writer who Dyer says made him want to become a writer.

What began as a biography turned into an autobiography of Dyer's tedious, frustrating and often very funny avoidance of writing his book about Lawrence.

It's called "Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence." In it, Geoff Dyer obsesses over what books to read, the best places to write, if he's going to catch a cold from a fellow passenger on ...

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