Reality Diet

David Shields’s Reality Hunger, which claims to be a manifesto of sorts, is an interesting read—around 600 epigrams illustrating something or other about the demise of fiction. Actually, I am still not sure what it claims, which may cause you to stop reading right here.

I have talked to Shields a number of times in the past. He’s an engaging fellow and my most recent chat with him may find its way to publication in the fullness of time. For the time being, if you are interested in being au currant on Shields (and you should be), he has engagingly laid out his literary and ontological notions in an interview at The Millions, as well as in a provocative essay, “Long Live the Anti-Novel, Built from Scraps,” which concludes:

Marco Roth ‘s “Throwback Throwdown” insists:

Reality Hunger