Thoughts & News
Straight-up gangster
04/14/2011
"David Shields is straight up gangster."
Read more of the review of Reality Hunger on Essay Daily.
Also see: "How Copyright Law Hurts Music, From Chuck D to Girl Talk" on The Atlantic.com, an interview with Kembrew McLeod, co-author of Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling. From the interview: "Last year, when novelist David Shields released Reality Hunger—a wholly borrowed novel that strung together passages from other texts—he received accolades from the literary establishment. Compare this to the reception of Danger Mouse's The Grey Album: The infamous record, which was spliced together from the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album, couldn't be commercially released without inviting multimillion dollar lawsuits."
Inevitable Conclusion
04/13/2011
"The idea of gathering some of the finest writers of our time...sounds like a tricky conceit, the literary equivalent of a 'concept album'...But damned if they don’t pull it off." -- "Inevitable Conclusion," review of The Inevitable in Obit Magazine.
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