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David Shields is a prolific and acclaimed writer of nonfiction books, essays, and films. His work explores topics such as reality, race, celebrity, and culture, and has been translated into two dozen languages.
- How Literature Saved My Life — David Shields
Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography,...
- The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead - David Shields
Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's...
- How Literature Saved My Life — David Shields
David Shields is an American author who has published twenty-four books, including Reality Hunger (which, in 2019, Lit Hub named one of the most important books of the past decade), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (a New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and ...
Learn about the life and work of David Shields, a bestselling author of more than twenty books, including The Very Last Interview. Find out his creative process, writing advice, and daily routine.
Jan 1, 2008 · The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead is a difficult-to-define, genre-crossing brooding and searching book that combines biography and biology in an obsessive musing on Death. David Shields’ father is 97. David Shields is obsessed with his father’s vitality and seemingly miraculous health and amazingly long life.
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David Shields is a writer who explores the power of literature to make life survivable in his book How Literature Saved My Life. He blends confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, and evokes his divided personality, character flaws, and despair.
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.
Dec 2, 2013 · David Shields is the author of fourteen books, including Reality Hunger (Knopf, 2010), which was named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications.
