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  | | How Literature Saved My Life (Vintage) by David Shields Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80272-9, ISBN: 0-345-80272-1 " Amazon Guest Review of “How Literature Saved My Life,” by David ShieldsBy Cheryl Strayed Cheryl Strayed is the author of the best-selling memoir Wild. Strayed writes the “Dear Sugar” column on TheRumpus.net. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Allure, Self, the Missouri Review, Brain, Child, The Rumpus, the Sun and elsewhere. The winner of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowship ..." |
 | | Enough About You(1st Edition) Notes Toward the New Autobiography by David Shields, Ross Mcelwee Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2009 by Soft Skull Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-219-3, ISBN: 1-59376-219-4 "What does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? Whatâs gained? Whatâs lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper truths are reached or at least reached for? Enough About You has no answers to these questions, but it frames and asks these questions in a much more overt, honest, precise, and provocative way than any book has attempted yet, and tries to do so while also delivering the ..." |
 | | The Very Last Interview (Paperback) by David Shields Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2022 by The New York Review Of Books, Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-642-4, ISBN: 1-68137-642-3 "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 ..." |
 | | The Trouble with Men(1st Edition) Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (21st Century Essays) by David Shields Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Mad Creek Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-5519-3, ISBN: 0-8142-5519-1 "David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanc ..." |
 | | The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead(Reprint) (Vintage) by Professor David Shields Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38796-7, ISBN: 0-307-38796-8 "Amazon Significant Seven, February 2008: "After you turn 7, your risk of dying doubles every eight years." By your 80s, you "no longer even have a distinctive odor ... You're vanishing." "The brain of a 90-year-old is the same size as that of a 3-year-old." And it goes on and on. David Shields's litany of decay and decrepitude might have overwhelmed the age-sensitive reader (like this one), but The Thing About Life Is That One Day You' ..." |
 | | How Literature Saved My Life(1st Edition) by David Shields, Keith Haring, Samantha Matthews Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-96152-5, ISBN: 0-307-96152-4 "In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, and painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature.Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascal's Pensées to Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Renata Adler's Speedboat to Proust's A Remembrance of Things Pas ..." |
 | | The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead(1st Edition) by David Shields Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26804-4, ISBN: 0-307-26804-7 "Amazon Significant Seven, February 2008: "After you turn 7, your risk of dying doubles every eight years." By your 80s, you "no longer even have a distinctive odor ... You're vanishing." "The brain of a 90-year-old is the same size as that of a 3-year-old." And it goes on and on. David Shields's litany of decay and decrepitude might have overwhelmed the age-sensitive reader (like this one), but The Thing About Life Is That One Day You' ..." |
 | | Black Planet(Updated) Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields, Gerald Graff, University Gerald Graff Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2006 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9354-0, ISBN: 0-8032-9354-2 "The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans-including especially himself-think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet ..." |
 | | Enough about You Adventures in Autobiography by David Shields, Amy Tan Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-2578-6, ISBN: 0-7432-2578-3 |
 | | Filling a Historical Blank The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection by David Shields Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2368-7, ISBN: 1-4773-2368-6 "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 ..." |
 | | Remote(1st Edition) Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity by David Shields Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-19364-5, ISBN: 0-299-19364-0 "PEN/Revson Award, 1992In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator--a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image--finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him. Through dazzling sleight of hand in which the public becomes private and the private becomes public, the enti ..." |
 | | Salinger(1st Edition) by David Shields Shan, Shane Salerno Hardcover, 704 Pages, Published 2014 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4711-3037-3, ISBN: 1-4711-3037-1 "Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the 20th century. For more than 50 years, the ever elusive author of The Catcher in the Ryehas been th ..." |
 | | The Spirit of Disruption Landmark Essays from The Normal School by Steven Church, Rick Moody, David Shields, Ander Monson, Elena Passarello, Joe Bonomo, Jerald Walker, Timothy Denevi, Silas Hansen, Lia Purpura Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2018 by Outpost19 ISBN-13: 978-1-944853-46-4, ISBN: 1-944853-46-4 "Twenty-eight landmark essays from The Normal School magazine — the standard-bearer for creative nonfiction today. From a diverse list of authors, startling reflections on the exceptional and the everyday. An essential guide to the art of nonfiction with new commentary from each contributor: Joe Bonomo, Kristen Cosby, Timothy Denevi, Silas Hansen, Caitlin Horrocks, Todd W. Kaneko, Matthew Komatsu, Dickson Lam, EJ Levy, Patrick Madden, Br ..." |
 | | Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump An Intervention by David Shields Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2018 by Thought Catalog Books ISBN-13: 978-1-945796-99-9, ISBN: 1-945796-99-5 "NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the “collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump,” and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political dis ..." |
 | | Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump An Intervention by David Shields Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2018 by Thought Catalog Books ISBN-13: 978-1-949759-05-1, ISBN: 1-949759-05-9 "NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the “collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump,” and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political dis ..." |
 | | I Think You're Totally Wrong(Reprint) A Quarrel by David Shields, Caleb Powell Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-6981-3, ISBN: 0-8041-6981-0 "Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life; his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. The stay-at-home dad (three young girls) and the workaholic writer (eighteen books) head to the woods to spend four days together in a cabin, arguing life vs. art. "I Think You re Totally Wrong "is an impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly ..." |
 | | I Think You're Totally Wrong(1st Edition) A Quarrel by David Shields, Caleb Powell Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35194-2, ISBN: 0-385-35194-1 "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art—beers included.Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls), whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art (he has five books coming out in the next year and a half). Shields and Powell spend four ..." |
 | | Salinger by David Shields, Shane Salerno Hardcover, 720 Pages, Published 2013 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-4483-4, ISBN: 1-4767-4483-1 "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED. Raised in Park Avenue privilege, J. D. Salinger sought out combat, surviving five bloody battles of World War II, and out of that crucible he created a novel, The Catcher in the Rye, which journeyed deep into his own despair and redefined postwar America. For more than fifty years, Salinger has ..." |
 | | Jeff, One Lonely Guy by Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2012 by Amazon Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-61218-324-4, ISBN: 1-61218-324-7 "In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he'd get a dozen calls; instead he got hundreds, and then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. The calls came from all over the country and from as far away as Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Taiwan, and Australia. Jeff spoke to as many people as ..." |
 | | Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Hamish Hamilton ISBN-13: 978-0-14-104949-6, ISBN: 0-14-104949-9 "Amazon Significant Seven, February 2008: "After you turn 7, your risk of dying doubles every eight years." By your 80s, you "no longer even have a distinctive odor ... You're vanishing." "The brain of a 90-year-old is the same size as that of a 3-year-old." And it goes on and on. David Shields's litany of decay and decrepitude might have overwhelmed the age-sensitive reader (like this one), but The Thing About Life Is That One Day You' ..." |
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