David Shields
David Shields is an American author and essayist born in 1956, known for more than two dozen books that blend memoir, criticism, and experimental nonfiction. His notable works include Reality Hunger, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, and Black Planet, and he has received honors including Guggenheim and NEA fellowships.
nonfiction
essays
memoir
literary criticism
Salinger
I Think You're Totally Wrong
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
How Literature Saved My Life
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
Salinger
Salinger
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Reality Hunger (Vintage)
The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season
War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict*
How Literature Saved My Life
Salinger
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead