Review of both Reality Hunger and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead on GQ.com (UK), by Michael Parsons: "It's always a pleasure to have your mind blown, and David Shields's Reality Hunger, a short, fiercely argued book about writing and reality, does this very nicely."
From the March/April issue of Writer's Chronicle, Martha Cooley on Reality Hunger: "[A]lthough it’s noisy and attention-greedy, his anti-novel rhetoric deserves consideration. It locates and exposes real anxieties among contemporary fiction writers."