David Shields

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David Shields's new book, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, (Knopf, 2008), was a New York Times bestseller. He is the author of eight previous books, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader; he's written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Books by David Shields

Average rating: 3.40 · 1,972 ratings · 464 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Reality Hunger: A Manifesto 3.57 avg rating — 722 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead 3.27 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season 3.43 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dead Languages 3.58 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Enough about You: Adventures in Autobiography 3.17 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity 3.66 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Handbook for Drowning: Stories 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields, Bradford Morrow (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine 2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Conjunctions: 51, The Death Issue 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“Anything processed by memory is fiction.”
― David Shields

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“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
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“Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

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