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Books by Professor David Shields
  | | Life Is Short – Art Is Shorter In Praise of Brevity by Professor David Shields, Elizabeth Cooperman Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Hawthorne Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9893604-5-6, ISBN: 0-9893604-5-8 ""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 compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence. 1. We are mortal beings.2. There is no god.3. We live in a digital cultur ..." |
 | | Other People(Reprint) Takes & Mistakes by Professor David Shields Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-6985-1, ISBN: 0-8041-6985-3 "Other People is something of a revelation: seventy-plus essays that form neither a miscellany nor a memoir but an intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness. Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, what function does art serve? Whether he is writing about sexual desire or information sickness, George W. Bush or K ..." |
 | | Other People Takes & Mistakes by Professor David Shields Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35199-7, ISBN: 0-385-35199-2 "An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, can art fill that gap? Grappling with these questions, David Shields gives us a b ..." |
 | | War Is Beautiful(1st Edition) The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* by Professor David Shields, Dave Hickey Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2015 by Powerhouse Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-759-3, ISBN: 1-57687-759-0 "* (in which the author explains why he no longer reads The New York Times)Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the “paper of record,” by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's ..." |
 | | Reality Hunger A Manifesto (Vintage) by Professor David Shields Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38797-4, ISBN: 0-307-38797-6 "Sarah Manguso Reviews Reality Hunger Sarah Manguso is the author of The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir, and two books of poetry, Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. Read Manguso's guest review of Reality Hunger: "I doubt very much that I’m the only person who’s finding it more and more difficult to want to read or write novels," David Shields acknowledges in Reality Hunger, then seeks to understand how ..." |
 | | Salinger(Reprint) by Professor David Shields, Shane Salerno Paperback, 720 Pages, Published 2014 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-4485-8, ISBN: 1-4767-4485-8 "An instant "New York Times "bestseller, this "explosive biography" ("People") of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is "as close as we'll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger's head" ("Entertainment Weekly"). This "revealing" ("The" "New York Times") and "engrossing" ("The" "Wall Street Journal") oral biography, "fascinating and unique" ("The Washington Post") and "an unmitigated success" ("USA TOD ..." |
 | | Heroes by Professor David Shields, Rick Telander Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2018 by Marrow Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9975039-2-0, ISBN: 0-9975039-2-0 "When Heroes was first published 33 years ago, the Los Angeles Reader called it "almost a parody of the modern American novel." And it is indeed exactly the kind of conventional, linear, realistic, old-fashioned novel that David Shields came to disavow and argue against. But Marrow Books is proud to bring Heroes back into print, because (like so much of Shields' work, from Remote to Black Planet to Reality Hunger to War Is Beautiful) it ..." |
 | | How Literature Saved My Life (CD-Audio) by Professor David Shields Published 2017 by Audible Studios On Brilliance ISBN-13: 978-1-5366-3547-8, ISBN: 1-5366-3547-2 |
 | | Salinger by Professor David Shields, Shane Salerno David, Shields Salerno Paperback, 720 Pages, Published 2014 by Simon & Schuster Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4711-3039-7, ISBN: 1-4711-3039-8 "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-The Private War of J.D. Salingeris a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century. For more than fifty years, the ever elusive author of Th ..." |
 | | The Larder(Updated) Food Studies Methods from the American South (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Ted Ownby, John T. Edge, Beth Latshaw, Andrew Warnes, Katie Rawson, Marcie Ferris, Rebecca Sharpless, Tom Hanchett, Rien Fertel, Rayna Green, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Angela Jill Cooley, Jessica B. Harris, Justin A. Nystrom, Psyche Williams-Forson, Professor David Shields, Wiley Prewitt Jr., Sara Camp Milam, David Shields, Angela Cooley, Justin Nystrom Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4555-0, ISBN: 0-8203-4555-5 "The sixteen essays in "The Larder" argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies. "The Larder" presents some of the most in ..." |
 | | Salinger by Professor David Shields, Shane Salerno, Salerno Shields Paperback, 698 Pages, Published 2013 by Simon & Schuster Export ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-4703-3, ISBN: 1-4767-4703-2 "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 twentieth century.THE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAM ..." |
 | | The Larder(Updated) Food Studies Methods from the American South (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by John T. Edge, Ted Ownby, Andrew Warnes, Angela Jill Cooley, Beth Latshaw, Jessica B. Harris, Justin A. Nystrom, Katie Rawson, Marcie Ferris, Psyche Williams-Forson, Professor David Shields, Rebecca Sharpless, Rien Fertel, Tom Hanchett, Wiley Prewitt Jr., Rayna Green, Sara Camp Milam, Elizabeth Engelhardt Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4554-3, ISBN: 0-8203-4554-7 "The sixteen essays in "The Larder" argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies. "The Larder" presents some of the most in ..." |
 | | Baseball Is Just Baseball The Understated Ichiro by Professor David Shields, David Shields Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by Blue Rider Press ISBN-13: 978-0-399-16410-1, ISBN: 0-399-16410-3 "Welcome to the Yankees, Ichiro! An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selection of Ichiro’s most startling and provocative observations. Updated to reflect his move to New York in July 2012, the book also includes a revised Introduction by acclaimed nonfiction writer David Shields.When Ichiro was traded to the Yankees on July 23, 2012, the news made headlines around the wo ..." |
 | | 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' ..." |
 | | John Bachman(1st Edition) Selected Writings on Science, Race, and Religion (Publications of the Southern Texts Society (Hardcover)) by Gene Waddell, John Bachman, David Shields, Professor David Shields Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3818-7, ISBN: 0-8203-3818-4 "John Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species.Bachman was the leading authority on North American mammals. He was responsible for the descriptions of the 147 mammal species inclu ..." |
 | | The Dead Girl(Updated) by Melanie Thernstrom, David Shields, Professor David Shields Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2014 by Pharos Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-940436-13-5, ISBN: 1-940436-13-3 "Melanie Thernstrom’s senior thesis was entitled Mistakes of Metaphor, an account of the mysterious disappearance and murder of her best friend, Bibi Lee. That thesis, reworked as The Dead Girl, was published by Pocket Books in 1990 to major critical acclaim.Berkeley student Roberta (Bibi) Lee went running with her lover Bradley Page on a Sunday in 1984. He came back alone. When she failed to return police mounted one of the largest mi ..." |
 | | Messy Beginnings Postcoloniality and Early American Studies (Hardback) by Malini Johar Schueller, Gayle Brandow Samuels, Professor David Shields, Professor Jim Egan, Professor Michelle Burnham, Professor Jennifer Rae Greeson, Professor Michael Drexler, Professor Laura Donaldson, Professor Anna Mae Duane, Professor Kristina Bross, Associate Professor Edward Watts, Professor Joanna Brooks, Edward Watts Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3232-5, ISBN: 0-8135-3232-9 "When exploring the links between America and postcolonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined. Messy Beginnings challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism, that its history is not as ""clean"" as European colonialism. By ..." |
 | | Messy Beginnings Postcoloniality and Early American Studies by Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts, Gayle Brandow Samuels, Professor Michael Drexler, Professor David Shields, Professor Jim Egan, Professor Michelle Burnham, Professor Jennifer Rae Greeson, Professor Laura Donaldson, Professor Anna Mae Duane, Professor Kristina Bross, Professor Joanna Brooks, Associate Professor Edward Watts Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3233-2, ISBN: 0-8135-3233-7 "When exploring the links between America and postcolonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined.Messy Beginnings challenges the idea of early America’s immunity from issues of imperialism, that its history is not as “clean” as European colonialism. By a ..." |
 | | 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 |
 | | The Death Issue Meditations on the Inevitable (Conjunctions:51) by Bradford Morrow, David Shields, Walter Abish, Chinua Achebe, John Ashbery, Martine Bellen, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Bard College ISBN-13: 978-0-941964-67-8, ISBN: 0-941964-67-1 |