David Shields
AuthorBio
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
David ShieldsNocturnals
Bradford MorrowA Cabinet of Curiosity
Bradford MorrowSanctuary
Bradford MorrowOther Aliens
William H. GassOther People
David ShieldsLife Is Short ? Art Is Shorter
David ShieldsI Think You're Totally Wrong
David ShieldsSalinger
David ShieldsHow Literature Saved My Life
David ShieldsFakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
David ShieldsDead Languages
David ShieldsThe Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
Bradford MorrowBody Politic
David ShieldsReality Hunger
David ShieldsThe Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
David Shields