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David Shields

writer, university teacher, film director, essayist

1956

David Shields is an American author of twenty-five books, including Reality Hunger (2010), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (2008), and Black Planet (1999). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, twice an NEA Fellow, a PEN Revson Award winner, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and the PEN West Award, and a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions.

All Quotes by David Shields

“I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.”
— David Shields
“I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.”
— David Shields