David Shields

Autor von Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

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David Shields was born in Los Angeles, California on July 22, 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Brown University in 1978 and an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1980. He writes both fiction and nonfiction books. His first novel, Heroes, mehr anzeigen was published in 1984. His other works include Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, How Literature Saved My Life, and Other People: Takes & Mistakes. Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity won the PEN/Revson Award and Dead Languages won the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. He is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

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Werke von David Shields

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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (2010) 535 Exemplare

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (2008) 437 Exemplare

Salinger (2013) 360 Exemplare

How Literature Saved My Life (2013) 215 Exemplare

Dead Languages (1989) 110 Exemplare

Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Editor/Contributor — 67 Exemplare

Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography (2002) 58 Exemplare

Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (1999) 58 Exemplare

The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (2011) 50 Exemplare

Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity (1996) 47 Exemplare

A Handbook for Drowning: Stories (1991) 45 Exemplare

Other People: Takes & Mistakes (2017) 38 Exemplare

Life Is Short, Art Is Shorter (2015) 33 Exemplare

That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields (2015) 30 Exemplare

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel (2015) 26 Exemplare

Jeff, One Lonely Guy (2012) 25 Exemplare

Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine (2004) 21 Exemplare

Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention (2018) 19 Exemplare

Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro (2001) 16 Exemplare

The Very Last Interview (2022) 15 Exemplare

The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (21st Century Essays) (2019) 15 Exemplare

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* (2015) 15 Exemplare

The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog (2022) 14 Exemplare

Heroes (1984) 10 Exemplare

Conjunctions: 51, The Death Issue: Meditations on the Inevitable (2008) 8 Exemplare

The Private War of J. D. Salinger 3 Exemplare

Hambre de realidad (2015) 2 Exemplare

Un Bush de plácemes: pemex aumenta plataforma de exportación. (Economía).(George W. Bush, presidente; Estados… 2 Exemplare

LO QUE PASA CON LA VIDA ES QUE UN DIA ESTARAS MUERTO (2017) 2 Exemplare

Tegenklinkers bekentenissen van een stotteraar (1991) 2 Exemplare

Edebiyat Hayatimi Nasil Kurtardi (2018) 2 Exemplare

Salinger (2020) 2 Exemplare

Fame di realtà. Un manifesto (2010) 1 Exemplar

Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity (2021) 1 Exemplar

Catalyst for Conservation: The Brandywine Conservancy's Success in Saving King Ranch Lands in Pennsylvania (2011) 1 Exemplar

The scarpfoot zone : an end of century poetry anthology from Kent (1996) 1 Exemplar

Pemex: Un futuro incierto (Documento) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 1 Exemplar

Hayat Iyi Hos Da, Sonunda Hepimiz Olecegiz! (2008) 1 Exemplar

On Views and Viewing (in McSweeney's 2 - EGGERS) 1 Exemplar

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012) — Mitwirkender — 199 Exemplare

Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Mitwirkender — 186 Exemplare

McSweeney's Issue 34 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Mitwirkender — 109 Exemplare

McSweeney's Issue 3: Windfall Republic (1999) — Mitwirkender — 95 Exemplare

McSweeney's Issue 2: Blues/Jazz Odyssey (1999) — Mitwirkender — 71 Exemplare

Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Mitwirkender — 57 Exemplare

The Office of Never Was (2017) — Erzähler — 15 Exemplare

Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions (2000) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare

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Geburtstag: 1956-07-22
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Wohnorte: Seattle, Washington, USA
Ausbildung: Brown University
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
Berufe: professor
Organisationen: University of Washington
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Das ||Dumme am Leben ist, dass man eines Tages tot… von David Shields

Ein erstaunliches Buch. Es verführt dazu, die Bedeutung unseres kurzen und rätselhaften Aufenthalts auf dieser Erde auf eine ganz neue und unerwartete Weise zu überdenken.

„Das Leben ist einfach, tragisch und schön“, schreibt David Shields. Der Gedanke, dass alles, was lebt, vergänglich ist, kann auf eine seltsame Weise befreiend sein. Dieses Buch erzählt davon, wie alles auf den Tod zuläuft. Paradox ist, dass der Leser dabei geradezu in eine Leichtigkeit des Seins gerät. Es geht in dem Buch nur scheinbar um den Tod. In Wirklichkeit geht es um das Leben.

Über den Autor
David Shields, geb. 1956, lebt in Seattle, wo er an der University of Washington Kreatives Schreiben unterrichtet. Für sein schriftstellerisches Werk ist er mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden.
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