Explore the heritage foods and traditions that give the United States its distinctive culinary identity-some rare, some endangered, all delicious-in this gorgeous compendium for curious eaters and home gardeners.
David Shields Boeken
22 juli 1956
David Shields is een auteur wiens werk op provocerende wijze de grenzen tussen fictie en realiteit onderzoekt, en wordt vaak omschreven als geestverruimend en hersenkraakmakend. Zijn schrijven duikt in dringende vragen over leven, kunst en de menselijke ervaring, met gebruik van onconventionele vormen en diepe zelfreflectie. Met zijn kenmerkende stem daagt Shields lezers uit om hun perceptie van de wereld en de aard van creatie en bestaan te heroverwegen.
"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 Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, "the real work began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions and finding a throughline." It's a ruthless self-dismantling in which the author, in this case, a late middle-aged white man, is strangely, thrillingly, not present. As Chuck Klosterman wrote about the book: "Logic suggests that people are best understood through the things they say, but that's not how the media usually work. People are actually defined by the questions they get asked (and the degree to which their answers can be framed to prove whatever was already assumed to be true).The Very Last Interview is David Shields doing what he has brilliantly done for the past twenty-five years: interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing the meaning of what seems both obviously straightforward and obviously wrong." -- Provided by publisher
"The official book of the acclaimed documentary film"--Jacket.
Reality Hunger
- 240bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
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. Drawing on myriad sources, Shields takes an audacious stance on issues that are being fought over now and will be fought over far into the future. Converts will see Reality Hunger as a call to arms; detractors will view it as an occasion to defend the status quo. It is certain to be one of the most controversial and talked about books of the season.
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.
