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David Shields on His New Book Reality Hunger
Here’s David Shields talking about his new book Reality Hunger: Here’s a review of the book at Times Flow Stemmed. Tagged: Books, David Shields, Literature, Reality Hunger, Reviews, Writers
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David Shields’s Post-postmodernism
I’m halfway through David Shields’s much buzzed-about manifesto Reality Hunger, and it seems to me that the work is really an attempt at defining post-postmodernism, a term, I should clarify upfront,...
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Reality Hunger — David Shields
Just what, exactly, is David Shields’s Reality Hunger supposed to be about? He’s brazen enough to slap the subtitle “A Manifesto” right there under the title, suggesting a work of sustained principles...
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Kakutani (and The Onion) on Sustained, Analytical Reading
In her recent essay “Texts Without Context,” New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani argues that web two-point-oh innovations have led to a world where– More people are impatient to cut to the...
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The Delighted States — Adam Thirlwell
This weekend, I read and thoroughly enjoyed the first volume of Adam Thirlwell’s The Delighted States (new in a handsome trade paperback edition from Picador at the end of this month). The word...
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Self-Ironizing Anti-Satiric Culture and a Juggalo’s Sense of Wonder
Last year, Saturday Night Live ran an unfunny parody of an infamous viral video. SNL sought to mock the 2009 Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercial which advertised the tenth anniversary spectacular for...
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“Plugging Literature Into Other Literature”— Tom McCarthy on His New Novel, C
British Cover for C Surplus Matters has reprinted last week’s edition of The Sunday Times interview with/profile of Tom McCarthy about his new novel C, our favorite new novel of 2010 (The Sunday Times...
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Wag’s Revue #6 Features Stephen Colbert, David Shields, and More
Issue 6 of the online literary journal Wag’s Revue is out now, and features interviews with Stephen Colbert and Reality Hunger author David Shields. They’re calling it the “Truthiness” issue, which I...
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Books of 2010 — Noteworthy, Notorious, and Neglected
Biblioklept already busted out our Best Books of 2010 list, selecting ten of our favorite novels of the year. Such limitations help to generate lists, which internet folks love to circulate–you know...
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