Reality Hunger

A Manifesto

De: David Shields

Narrado por: Peter Marinker

Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores - the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real - play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness'. Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. Drawing on myriad stances, David Shields seeks to tear up the old culture in search of something new and more authentic.

©2010 David Shields (P)2011 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A rare and very peculiar thing: a wake-up call that is a pleasure to hear and respond to. A daring combination of montage and essay, it's crammed full of good things." (Geoff Dyer)

"I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it - astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed." (Jonathan Lethem)

"Bold, entertaining, contentious. Essential reading for readers and writers." (Guardian)

"Weird, exciting, incendiary." (Dazed and Confused)

A great intellectual and creative tool for serious writers

A great book for opening up your unconscious brain, unlocking creativity, and pondering philosophical creative writing questions you might never have thought of on your own