Life With a Capital L: Geoff Dyer and Frances Wilson on D.H. Lawrence
Tuesday 16 July 2019, 7 p.m. · 56 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/1/9/7/2/1892791-1-eng-GB/5cffb9fc44ccb.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/1/9/7/2/1892791-1-eng-GB/5cffb9fc44ccb.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/1/9/7/2/1892791-1-eng-GB/5cffb9fc44ccb.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/1/9/7/2/1892791-1-eng-GB/5cffb9fc44ccb.jpg 1200w)
Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, he has edited a selection of Lawrence's essays for Penguin. Subjects covered in this freewheeling volume include art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains and, presciently, the narcissism of photographing ourselves.
Dyer was in conversation about Lawrence and non-fiction with historian and biographer Frances Wilson whose most recent book is Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey.
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