David Shields is the author of twelve books, including Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications, and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
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Radio Hour: War Photography, Botanical Fictions, and the Opiate Epidemic
David Shields criticizes war photography, Jonathan Lethem on the "reality field" of Claremont, and Sam Quinones explains America's opiate epidemic....

Radio Hour: “That Thing You Do With Your Mouth,“ Parnaz Foroutan, and “The Royal We“
On this week’s show, author David Shields talks about his new collaboration That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, LARB ...

Still Hungry
On Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station."...

Life is Short; Art is Shorter
Every life, properly understood, is compelling....
