Geoff Dyer: Out of Sheer Rage — In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence

Plus: Another Great Day at Sea, and White Sands

But Beautiful was my introduction to Geoff Dyer, a writer I felt at home with immediately, as I did when I first came across Hemingway and Steinbeck, D. H. Lawrence, and a certain Jan Myrdal, whose Confessions of a Disloyal European in the 1960s opened my eyes to certain aspects of life I had not given enough…