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<item><title><![CDATA[David Gates & Jonathan Lethem: A Kind of Vast Fiction]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:10:52 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ David Gates: I say this having just read David Shields’s Reality Hunger, which I know impressed you as it did me; it makes as strong an argument against conventional fiction as I can imagine. It’s helped clarify for me why I can read so little fiction these days, and why I can’t stand most of what I’m now writing myself. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/david-gates--jonathan-lethem-a-kind-of-vast-fiction.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[America First?]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:05:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ New York Review of Books &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/america-first.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Q&A With New Champ of Literary Mashups]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:38:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Since it was released in February, David Shields&rsquo; Reality Hunger has become either a b&ecirc;te noire or a cause c&eacute;l&egrave;bre, depending on your philosophical outlook and mastery of the French language. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/qa-with-new-champ-of-literary-mashups.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Audio Book Club: &quot;Reality Hunger A Manifesto,&quot;...]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:34:28 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson and Jody Rosen discuss David Shields' book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/audio-book-club-reality-hunger-a-manifesto.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:48:29 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ My new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, is awash in conscious, self-conscious, conspicuous appropriation. I and many other contemporary writers, musicians, visual artists, and copyleft lawyers are trying to think in new and different ... &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/in-writing-art-and-music-everybody-steals.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Essays from the Millons]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:31:51 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Long Live the Anti-Novel, Built from Scraps

All Great Works of Literature Either Dissolve a Genre or Invent One: A Reading List &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/essays-from-the-millons.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Books That Grapple With Meaning]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 23:42:19 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ David Shields talks with KUOW's Jeremy Richards and shares two books that tear down meaning while still affirming a reason to live. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/books-that-grapple-with-meaning.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[The Conversation - KUOW]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 11:34:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Interview 05/05/2010 at 12:00 p.m.
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<item><title><![CDATA[New Yorker ad]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:50:29 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Full-page ad in NY area edition of the New Yorker,  4/19/10 &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/new-yorker-ad.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[‘I’ Exam]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:47:03 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  My review in 4/20/10 NYTBR of Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir &nbsp;<a href="http://www.davidshields.com/blog/i-exam.html">[&#8230;read more]</a>]]></description>
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