Review of "Reality Hunger" by David Shields in NYT
March 23, 2010
Copyright of ideas and text — taking on the system.
“In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.” He says he’s “bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters” and much more interested in confession and “reality-based art.” His own book can be taken as Exhibit A in what he calls “recombinant” or appropriation art.”
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/21mash.html?src=me&ref=homepage
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