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How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields
$32.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
"Reading "How Literature Saved My Life "is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form." --Whitney Otto In this wonderfully intelligent, ...Show more
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"Reality Hunger" is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores - the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real - play ...Show more
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
$22.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up the old culture in search of something new and more authentic, it is the most vital book of the new centur ...Show more
Salinger by David Shields
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biogra ...Show more
Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biogra ...Show more
The Inevitable : Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields & Bradford Morrow
$22.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes ghost bikes in memory of those who die in biking accidents; ...Show more
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