Books written by David Shields

Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season

Gary scores only 16 points, but he puts the clamps on the Kings' Mitch Richmond and gets the Sonics playing more ... 12.27.94—On the Gary Payton Show, Michael Knight says, “Now we have the new microphone under Gary Payton's bed in his ...
Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey

Flip-Side is a work of dialogue that explores the relationship between performance and persona, on the one hand, and underlying pain and trauma, on the other. The text is complimented by dozens of selfies of James and Lana.
Other People: Takes & Mistakes

The book is divided into five sections: Men, Women, Athletes, Performers, Alter Egos.
Salinger

En el curso de una investigación de nueve años, y especialmente en los tres años transcurridos desde la muerte de Salinger, David Shields y Shane Salerno han entrevistado a más de 200 personas de los cinco continentes (muchos de los ...
Reality Hunger

Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel.
Enough about You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography

Enough About You is a book about David Shields.
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.
Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity

David Shields reads his own life—reads our life—as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes. Winner of the PEN / Revson Award?
Heroes

Ex-jock sportswriter Al Biederman, mired in a midwestern college town, dreaming of glories past and a fantasy future, finds hope and then a moral dilemma in Belvyn Menkus, a basketball phenomenon involved in a recruiting scandal
Dead Languages: A Novel

From the moment his mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," Jeremy Zorn's life is framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed...
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel

An aspiring artist-turned-stay-at-home-dad and an artist whose creative drives prevented him from having a family recount the course of their heated four-day debate over their vocational choices in a Cascade Mountains cabin.
Salinger

A highly anticipated cultural event: the first definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures in American history.
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intevention

A psychological investigation of Trump, a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, a satirical compilation of the "collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump," and above all a dagger into the rhetoric of ...
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season

Exploration of how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans think and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies.
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.
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention

This is a designation that hasn't been conferred on an American writer since Philip K. Dick. What I'm saying is that Shields is that good.
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

David Shields, Matthew Vollmer. THE VARIETIES OF ROMANTIC EXPERIENCE: An. Introduction. Rob Cohen G O O D M O R N I N G. It appears we have quite a turnout. This is an ... The Varieties of Romantic Experience: An Introduction” Lecture Rob ...
The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog

In this book, David Shields rigorously updates and expands upon Kelly’s historical information about the types, clarifying the collection’s exact composition and providing a better understanding of the stylistic development of wood type ...
The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog

... Specimens of Wood Type. Two distinct collations of Vander- burgh, Wells & Co. specimens are included, separated by ... Borders, Rules, &c. [4]p, [147]l : 10.875 × 13 ̋ : CU 1878 Vanderburgh, Wells & Co. Specimens of Vanderburgh, Wells ...
Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine

In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports.