David Shields
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March 2010
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
— published 2010 — 9 editions |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
— published 2008 — 14 editions |
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How Literature Saved My Life
— published 2013 — 4 editions |
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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
— published 1999 — 4 editions |
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Enough about You: Adventures in Autobiography
— published 2002 — 7 editions |
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Dead Languages
— published 1986 — 4 editions |
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Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
— published 1996 — 3 editions |
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
by David Shields (Goodreads Author) , Matthew Vollmer (Goodreads Author) — published 2012 — 2 editions |
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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
by David Shields (Goodreads Author), Bradford Morrow — published 2011 — 3 editions |
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A Handbook for Drowning: Stories
— published 1991 — 4 editions |
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February 2013,
David Shields
"His Favorite Books That Could Save a Life: Why do we read? The nonfiction writer offers insight in How Literature Saved My Life and shares his list of life-changing books." ...More
"His Favorite Books That Could Save a Life: Why do we read? The nonfiction writer offers insight in How Literature Saved My Life and shares his list of life-changing books." ...More
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“IT’S HARDLY a coincidence that “Shipping Out,” Wallace’s most well-known essay, appeared only a month before Infinite Jest, his most well-known novel, was published. Both are about the same thing (amusing ourselves to death), with different governing données (lethally entertaining movie, lethally pampering leisure cruise). In an interview after the novel came out, Wallace, asked what’s so great about writing, said that we’re existentially alone on the planet—I can’t know what you’re thinking and feeling, and you can’t know what I’m thinking and feeling—so writing, at its best, is a bridge constructed across the bridge of human loneliness.”
― David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life
― David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Listomania: David Shield's 'Very Partial Reading List' | 1 | 14 | Mar 24, 2011 12:51pm | |
| South African Boo...: Barbara's TDRC to read and completed list | 135 | 36 | Dec 31, 2011 03:28am | |
| The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2013 - Part One | 16 | 142 | Apr 23, 2013 10:31am |


























