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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
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David Shields
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, January 05, 2010
Reality Hunger should be required reading for any student of the arts--or anybody wanting their finger on the button of the burgeoning (but also historically omnipresent) phenomenon of artists bringing the rawness of "reality" into human expression. Examining film, poetry, the lyric essay, reality television, or any format where the creator/actor is himself in frame, Shields' "Manifesto" documents both the history and the state of the art--while somehow becoming a part of--the genre of reality literature. Citing everybody from St Augustine to Larry David, it is much more than a work of criticism: it is a treatise on the an artist's highest form of expression: not Cogito Ergo Sum, but Sum Ergo Ars Genero. Reality Hunger can help us tune our ear to "the sound of human voices waking before they drown."
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Thing about Life Is That One Day Youll Be Dead
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David Shields
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, January 22, 2008
The Thing About Life is a daring, far-reaching, and exciting book. Through a series of lists, mini-essays, parables, and glimpses into his--and our--life, Shields' work morphs into a greater thing: a meditation on the joy and hopelessness of our all-too-short existence. Like Romeo and Juliet, TAY is a meditation on the impossible connection between sex and death, but like The Tempest, Shields' work goes further and becomes an honest (and funny, and melancholy) instruction manual to help us deal with our ultimate ineffectiveness in the face of our inevitable mortality. I've read the book multiple times and have given my copy to many friends, all of whom have loved it.
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