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Reality Hunger

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #151: David Shields

  • Moshe Schulman
  • October 25, 2018
“Antidote to Trump? Whole book is an attempt to find one.”
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Readymade Novels

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 21, 2015
According to Shaj Mathew, novelists are more and more approaching writing as conceptual art, creating “readymade” novels. You can read his take on the “Reality Hunger generation” over at The New Republic.
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The Rumpus Interview with David Shields and Caleb Powell

  • Edie Meidav
  • February 20, 2015
Writers David Shields and Caleb Powell can't stop fighting, even about their new book-length argument and forthcoming film, I Think You're Totally Wrong.
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Stranger than Fiction

  • Roxie Pell
  • January 27, 2015
The death of the novel has been argued and rebutted and argued again. Drawing from David Shields‘s book of literary criticism, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, Alexander Nazaryan wonders whether the…
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In Defense of The Novel

  • Alex Norcia
  • December 4, 2014
For the New Yorker, Adelle Waldman responds to David Shields’s Reality Hunger, primarily using Anna Karenina to defend the powers of the novel.
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The Rumpus Interview with David Shields

  • Sean Carman
  • March 7, 2013
Essayist and lauded thinker David Shields talks about his new book, whether it’s necessary to draw sharp distinctions between literary forms, and his celebration of literature that collapses the distance between the artist’s life and work.
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The Rumpus Interview with David Shields (Paperback Edition)

  • Caleb Powell
  • February 23, 2011
The February 2010 publication of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, by David Shields, generated an amazing amount of discussion from all sides.
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What Should The New Novel Look Like?

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 16, 2010
“Man is here, the world is there and the distance between the two lies at the heart of the new novel project.” — Andrew Gallix at The Guardian Book Blog…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

  • Seth Fischer
  • March 14, 2010
Lately, it’s been so crappy out I’ve been wondering what I did to offend the fates, but I think they’ve now forgiven me, because it is a beautiful spring day.
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What Happened During The Blackout

  • Michael Berger
  • March 11, 2010
Just when I thought I was unique, just as I’ve been spending the last six-odd months editing a short story about the misadventures of retail workers during a city-wide blackout…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/8 – 3/14

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • March 8, 2010
This week in New York Sam Lipsyte reads from The Ask, David Shields reads from Reality Hunger, the Magnetic Fields perform, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks reads, Lore Segal and Tao Lin…
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