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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 out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this truthiness: about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels. Read more...
Abstract: 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 out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this truthiness: about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels.

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PRAISE FOR DAVID SHIELDSS reality hunger Provocative brain-rewiring A book - photo 1
PRAISE FOR DAVID SHIELDSS reality hunger

Provocative, brain-rewiring. A book that feels at least five years ahead of its time and teaches you how to read it as you go.

Alex Pappademas, GQ

Maybe hes simply ahead of the rest of us, mapping out the literary future of the next generation.

Susan H. Greenberg, Newsweek

A work of virtuoso banditry that promises to become, like Lewis Hydes The Gift for earlier generations, the book that artists in all media turn to for inspiration, vindication, and altercation as they struggle to reinvent themselves against the headwinds of our time.

Rob Nixon, The Chronicle of Higher Education

A rare and very peculiar thing: a wake-up call that is a pleasure to hear and respond to.

Geoff Dyer

This dudes book is the hip-hop album of the year.

Peter Macia, Fader

I dont think it would be too strong to say that Shieldss book will be a sort of bible for the next generation of culture-makers.

David Griffith, Bookslut

One of the most provocative books Ive ever read. I think its destined to become a classic.

Charles DAmbrosio

Voracious and elegantly structured. Entertaining, insightful, and impressively broad. An invigorating shakedown of the literary status quo: recommended for readers, essential for writers.

Scott Indrisek, Time Out New York

Shields has put a bullet in the brain of our ridiculously oversimplified compulsion to think of everything as a narrative.

Paul Constant, The Stranger

Might be the most intense, thought-accelerating book of the last ten years.

Chuck Klosterman

Shields has a point. He gives a damn. Hes trying to make a difference. Hes using the best of his formidable talents to do that.

Wayne Alan Brenner, The Austin Chronicle

Witty, insightful, and compulsively readable. Every page abounds in fresh observations.

Lydia Davis

This is the book our sick-at-heart moment needslike a sock in the jaw or an electric jolt in the solar plexusto wake it up.

Wayne Koestenbaum

Absorbing, even inspiring. The ideas [Shields] raises are so important, his ideas are so compelling, that I raved about this book the whole time I was reading it and have regularly quoted it to friends in the weeks since.

Jami Attenberg, Bookforum

Brilliant. It keeps the reader alert and attentive and excited through sheer intelligence, epigrammatic concision, wit, and sheer rightness, as when a pronouncement is so correct that it just pulls all the clouds aside. Theres a feeling of the imminence of violence in these perceptions. This is a great compliment.

Charles Baxter

Thrilling to read, even if you disagree with much of it.

Zadie Smith, The Guardian (London)

Shields says things here that I have thought, wished I thought, wished someone would say. A sparky, brainy, passionate, often very funny, and never small-hearted or pinch-minded book: rigorous, demanding but generous and searching and self-debunking.

Patricia Hampl

I love this book and am amused to see some of the hysterical reactions its provokedproof, I think, of its radical truthfulness. Shields is utterly uninterested in providing intellectual comfort; he bravely, uncompromisingly delivers the news.

Walter Kirn

David Shields David Shields is the author of nine previous books - photo 2

David Shields

David Shields is the author of nine previous books including The Thing About - photo 3

David Shields is the author of nine previous books, including The Thing About Life Is That One Day Youll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller; Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

www.davidshields.com

ALSO BY DAVID SHIELDS

The Thing About Life Is That One Day Youll Be Dead
Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine
Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
Handbook for Drowning: A Novel in Stories
Dead Languages: A Novel
Heroes: A Novel

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION FEBRUARY 2011 Copyright 2010 by David Shields - photo 4

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 2011

Copyright 2010 by David Shields

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2010.

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Shields, David, 1956
Reality hunger : a manifesto / by David Shields.1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Literature, Modern21st centuryHistory and criticism.
2. Literary manifesti. 3. Modernism (Literature).
I. Title.
PN781.S55 2010
809.9112dc22 2009030237

eISBN: 978-0-307-59323-8

Author photograph Tom Collicott

www.vintageanchor.com

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For Michael Logan and James Nugent

I would like to express my deep gratitude for fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Artist Trust, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

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All great works of literature
either dissolve a genre or invent one.

WALTER BENJAMIN

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Art is theft.

PICASSO

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When we are not sure, we are alive.

GRAHAM GREENE

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Every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art. Zola: Every proper artist is more or less a realist according to his own eyes. Braques goal: To get as close as I could to reality. E.g., Chekhovs diaries, E. M. Forsters Commonplace Book, Fitzgeralds The Crack-Up (much his best book), Cheevers posthumously published journals (same), Edward Hoaglands journals, Alan Bennetts Writing Home. So, too, every artistic movement or moment needs a credo: Horaces Ars Poetica, Sir Philip Sidneys Defence of Poesie, Andr Bretons Surrealist Manifesto, Dogme 95s Vow of Chasity. My intent is to write the ars poetica for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists in a multitude of forms and medialyric essay, prose poem, collage novel, visual art, film, television, radio, performance art, rap, stand-up comedy, graffitiwho are breaking larger and larger chunks of reality into their work. (

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