Books written by David Shields

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel

Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls). DavidShields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art.
Heroes

I bought two sixes of Molson Ale and a pack of pretzels at the Quick - Trip on Gilbert . Only a few blocks away stood an old motel called the Jefferson Davis . River City is comfortably above the Mason - Dixon line , but the background ...
The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, ...
Other People: Takes & Mistakes

Meredith—good ole boy with a sideways wit—said, “Woof.” Another time, a receiver muffed an easy catch, and Meredith said, “Hey, he should be on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell,” which tanked after twelve shows. Cosell glowered.
Salinger

... SALINGER (11) Shane Salerno, interview met Michael McDermott. 'Twee literaire types': D. Salinger, brief aan Michael Mitchell, 31 augustus 1979. °7⁄8¦^~7⁄8××7⁄8= >μ7⁄8~ ¦2⁄3÷+=°7⁄8~ (›«) Paul Corkery, 'Solitude May Be Bliss 196. ...
Salinger

75 “I have known Jerry Salinger”: Whit Burnett, letter to Colonel Collins,July 1, 1942. 76 “The sarge almost had an attack”: J. D. Salinger, “The Hang of It,” Collier's, July 12, 1941. 78 “I am inside the truck”: J. D. Salinger, ...
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel

When Wagoner retired ten years ago or so, David Guterson got up and told a funny story about how whenever he tried to track down Wagoner for a response to his work, Wagoner would say, “Just keep writing.” Guterson pretended that Wagoner ...
Dead Languages

In Dead Languages by David Shields, Jeremy Zorn's mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," and his life becomes framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation.
Salinger

Belcher,William F., and James W. Lee, eds.J. D. Salinger and the Critics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1962. Bellman, Samuel Irving. “New Light on Seymour's Suicide: Salinger's 'Hapworth 16, 1942.'” Studies in ShortFiction 3 (Spring 1966): ...
永遠的麥田捕手沙林傑

本书以口述为主,受访的亲朋好友包括二次大战袍泽,近亲,好友,女友,同学,编辑,纽约客同事,心灵导师,以及家人未曾知晓的几位私友.这些爱访者回忆的佐证,是超过175幅照片,日记 ...
How Literature Saved My Life

The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed ...
Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity

Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for ...
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power

An honest, brilliant look at one man's marriage and the view it affords for examining relationships between men and women across our culture.
That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields

This book is an attempt, sometimes self-thwarted, to break down barriers: sexual and emotional for Matthews, literary for Shields.
War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals.
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

Two writers and professors present 40 short pieces of fiction that serve as humorous counterfeit texts, including a personal ad from Ron Carlson, a parking department complaint from Amy Hempel and a list of works cited from Rick Moody.
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

The author of the best-selling The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead presents a call for new art forms to match the complexities of the 21st century, exploring how creative expression is being reshaped to reflect today's ...
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death

What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death.
Uncorrected Proof: I Think You're Totally Wrong: a Quarrel

This is an unofficial proof, produced by the authors. It should not be confused with the publisher's uncorrected proof, which is not yet available.
The Very Last Interview

As Chuck Klosterman says, “The Very Last Interview is David Shields doing what he has done dazzlingly for the past twenty-five years: interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing the meaning of what seems both obviously ...