Reality Hunger Reality Hunger

Reality Hunger

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Publisher Description

A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.

Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
February 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
12.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Matt Verzola ,

Great book

Only read the paperback, and it was a great book. Cool format as it's just a series of quotes used to convey a distinct message. Nice commentary on sampling, reality tv, and the nature of what defines "real."

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