Jaipur: Shuddering with cold, the tall lanky writer and Guardian columnist, Geoff Dyer, whose book, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz won him fans worldwide asks for a simple thing from us to park ourselves in sunlight and thaw our frozen circulation systems. Doing that, we ask the ruminative and quintessential “postmodern” writer as literary critic James Wood puts it, on his reluctance to write.

“I find writing extremely difficult. Maybe it comes with age, don’t you think so?” Dyer tries to reverse the equation. His penning of the essay, Out of Sheer Rage about the early modern writer DH Lawrence is equally famous for his oscillation between writing and un-writing. We ask if the author who feels, “I got into writing because I couldn’t do anything else” how he takes festivals.