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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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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields avg rating 3.24 — 367 ratings — published 2008 5 editions |
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Dead Languages (Graywolf Rediscovery Series) by David Shields avg rating 3.79 — 38 ratings — published 1986 3 editions |
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Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity by David Shields avg rating 3.83 — 36 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography by David Shields avg rating 3.34 — 41 ratings — published 2002 2 editions |
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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields avg rating 3.49 — 35 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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A Handbook for Drowning: Stories by David Shields avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published 1991 3 editions |
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Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields avg rating 3.11 — 9 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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Heroes: A Novel by David Shields avg rating 2.80 — 5 ratings — published 1984 2 editions |
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2010 |
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Conjunctions: 51, The Death Issue by David Shields avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008 |
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"No one was dancing, least of all us, because I don't dance in public. My body's a private thing; it doesn't belong to the world at large."
— David Shields (A Handbook for Drowning: Stories)
— David Shields (A Handbook for Drowning: Stories)
"When will you stop laughing at misery? I'm so sick and tired of your pseudo-strength. All I want you to do is laugh at what is funny and cry at what isn't, but you won't do that, will you?"
— David Shields (A Handbook for Drowning: Stories)
— David Shields (A Handbook for Drowning: Stories)

















