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David Shields

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David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Reality Hunger (recently named one of the most important books of the last decade by Lit Hub), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors’ Choice). 

Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention was published in 2018. The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power appeared in 2019. 

James Franco’s film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History, a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch’s use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance. 

A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, and the Loren Douglas Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, Shields has published fiction and nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Essays. His work has been translated into two dozen languages.

David Shields Books

The Very Last Interview book cover

The Very Last Interview

David Shields
Nocturnals book cover

Nocturnals

Bradford Morrow
A Cabinet of Curiosity book cover

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Bradford Morrow
Sanctuary book cover

Sanctuary

Bradford Morrow
Other Aliens book cover

Other Aliens

William H. Gass
Other People book cover

Other People

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Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter book cover

Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter

David Shields
I Think You're Totally Wrong book cover

I Think You're Totally Wrong

David Shields
Salinger book cover

Salinger

David Shields
How Literature Saved My Life book cover

How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts book cover

Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

David Shields
Dead Languages book cover

Dead Languages

David Shields
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death book cover

The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death

Bradford Morrow
Body Politic book cover

Body Politic

David Shields
Reality Hunger book cover

Reality Hunger

David Shields
The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead book cover

The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

David Shields
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