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36 produkter
Reality Hunger
A Manifesto
Häftad, 2011
218 kr
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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 …
Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Häftad, 2011
183 kr
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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of …
Reality Hunger
A Manifesto
E-bok, 2010
170 kr
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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 - …
Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of …
Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Ljudbok, 2011
136 kr
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of David Shields 2008 New York Times Bestseller, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You''ll Be Dead, read by the actor Peter Marinker. Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father''s vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an …
Reality Hunger
A Manifesto
Ljudbok, 2011
147 kr
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of David Shields highly persuasive Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. Read by the actor Peter Marinker. Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking …
How Literature Saved My Life
E-bok, 2013
224 kr
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“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 …
I Think You're Totally Wrong
A Quarrel
Av Caleb Powell, David Shields
E-bok, 2015
207 kr
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An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art—beers 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), whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted …
Other People
Takes & Mistakes
E-bok, 2017
192 kr
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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 …
Inevitable
Contemporary Writers Confront Death
Av Bradford Morrow, David Shields
Häftad, 2011
345 kr
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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 the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking …
Fakes
An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Av David Shields, Matthew Vollmer
Häftad, 2012
223 kr
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In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered …
Body Politic
The Great American Sports Machine
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire in denial. Shields relentlessly examines the way we tell our sports stories (both fictional …
Black Planet
Facing Race During an NBA Season
Häftad, 2006
186 kr
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The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans-including especially …
Trouble with Men
Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
Häftad, 2019
237 kr
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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter
In Praise of Brevity
Av Elizabeth Cooperman, David Shields
E-bok, 2015
218 kr
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Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, …
Body Politic
The Great American Sports Machine
E-bok, 2010
186 kr
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In Body Politic , David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire in denial. Shields relentlessly examines the way we tell our sports stories (both fictional …
Salinger
Av Shane Salerno, David Shields
Ljudbok, 2013
605 kr
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An instant New York Times bestseller, this “explosive biography” ( People ) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is “as close as we’ll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger’s head” ( Entertainment Weekly ). This “revealing” ( The New York Times ) and …
Jeff, One Lonely Guy
Av Michael Logan, David Shields m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2012
222 kr
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In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan, asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d get a dozen calls; instead, he got hundreds, then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. They …
Salinger
Av Shane Salerno, David Shields
E-bok, 2013
121 kr
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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. Salingeris a global cultural event: the definitive …
Salinger
Av Shane Salerno, David Shields
E-bok, 2013
213 kr
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An instant New York Times bestseller, this “explosive biography” ( People ) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is “as close as we’ll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger’s head” ( Entertainment Weekly ). This “revealing” ( The New York Times ) and …
Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection
A History and Catalog
Inbunden, 2022
754 kr
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2023 50 Books 50 Covers Award, The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)2024 Honorable Mention, Design Awards, Graphis2024 Finalist, Typography Competition, Communication Arts MagazineA beautifully illustrated exploration of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection.The Rob Roy Kelly Wood …
Black Planet
Facing Race During an NBA Season
Häftad, 2025
232 kr
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Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, and LA Weekly.During the 1994–1995 NBA season, David Shields attended nearly all of the …
Dead Languages
E-bok, 2011
182 kr
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In Dead Languages by David Shields, Jeremy Zorn''s mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," and his life becomes framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for …
