David Shields
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers - in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields - a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barcelona, where she briefly moonlighted as a dubber of Italian pornography...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiography about my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battle...
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A book-length essay in which the author investigates his own masochism, the foundation of his marriage, the limits of a couple's candor, the impact of porn on contemporary relationships, and the vexed history between men and women across time and culture"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, can art fill that gap? Grappling with these questions, David Shields gives us a book that is...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Very Last Interview is a unique work, a lacerating self-examination that came about when David decided to gather every interview he ever did, going back nearly 40 years. If it was radio or TV, he transcribed it. He wasn't sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn't interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested him - approximately 2,700, which he collated and cut down to form 22 chapters focused on subjects that include...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls). David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art. At antipodes since first meeting twenty-five years ago, they headed to a cabin in the Cascade Mountains and threw down....
Author
Publisher
powerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the 'paper of record,' by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well. This...
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