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10 Books That Could Save Your Life

Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer

As Shields describes it, Dyer’s book about not writing a biography of D.H. Lawrence is “a thinking person’s self-help book: how to live your life with passion when you know every passion is delusional.” The answer: “the best we can do is to try to make some progress with our studies of D.H. Lawrence.” That is, keep on, because what else will you do?