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Salinger
- By: David Shields, Shane Salerno
- Narrated by: Peter Friedman, January LaVoy, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
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Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last 56 years of Salinger’s life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers. Provided unprecedented access to diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, listeners will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century.
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Excellent Insight!
- By Matthew Elliott on 14-06-16
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Salinger
- Narrated by: Peter Friedman, January LaVoy, Robert Petkoff, Campbell Scott
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-09-13
- Language: English
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Reality Hunger
- A Manifesto
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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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 Hungeris a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness'.
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Reality Hunger
- A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-06-11
- Language: English
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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter
- In Praise of Brevity
- By: David Shields, Elizabeth Cooperman, Donald Barthelme, and others
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Jill Iverson
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology gathering both mini-essays and short-short stories. Listeners, writers, and teachers will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.
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fabulous book, terribly read
- By R. D. Rosengarten on 11-01-22
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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter
- In Praise of Brevity
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Jill Iverson
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being. Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers - from Lucretius to Woody Allen - Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-06-11
- Language: English
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Enough About You
- Notes Toward the New Autobiography
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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What does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What’s gained? What’s lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper truths are reached or at least reached for? Enough About You has no answers to these questions, but it frames and asks these questions in a much more overt, honest, precise, and provocative way than any book has attempted yet, and tries to do so while also delivering the pleasures of narrative, of memoir, of search-for-self.
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Enough About You
- Notes Toward the New Autobiography
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-02-20
- Language: English
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Remote
- Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. David Shields reads his own life - reads our life - as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, and heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes.
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Remote
- Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-02-21
- Language: English
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Fakes
- An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
- By: David Shields, Matthew Vollmer
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered 40 short fictions that they’ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents.
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Fakes
- An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-12-20
- Language: English
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How Literature Saved My Life
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascal's Penses to Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Renata Adler's Speedboat to Proust's A Remembrance of Things Past) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his "ridiculous" ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs.
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How Literature Saved My Life
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-01-14
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Men
- Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanced between the personal and the anthropological, nakedness and restraint.
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The Trouble with Men
- Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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The Very Last Interview
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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David Shields decided to gather every interview he’s ever given, going back nearly forty years. If it was on the radio or TV or a podcast, he transcribed it. He wasn’t sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn’t interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested him—approximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy.
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The Very Last Interview
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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Heroes
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: John Dellaporta
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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When Heroes was first published 33 years ago, the Los Angeles Reader called it “almost a parody of the modern American novel”. And it is indeed exactly the kind of conventional, linear, realistic, old-fashioned novel that David Shields came to disavow and argue against. But Marrow Books is proud to bring Heroes back into print, because (like so much of Shields’ work, from Remote to Black Planet to Reality Hunger to War Is Beautiful) it has proven to be uncannily prescient.
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Heroes
- Narrated by: John Dellaporta
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-04-21
- Language: English
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The Inevitable
- Contemporary Writers Confront Death
- By: Bradford Morrow, David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, 20 writers face this fact.
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The Inevitable
- Contemporary Writers Confront Death
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-11-20
- Language: English
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Dead Languages
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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In the face of many well-meaning, but often misguided attempts to cure him of his stutter, young Jeremy Zorn develops both an astonishing prowess as an athlete and a large vocabulary, and comes to understand the power of language.
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Dead Languages
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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Body Politic
- The Great American Sports Machine
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: John Drennan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire in denial. Shields relentlessly examines the way we tell our sports stories (both fictional and nonfictional), considers the kinds of athletes we choose as heroes, and delineates the lessons and values we glean from sports.
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Body Politic
- The Great American Sports Machine
- Narrated by: John Drennan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-05-20
- Language: English
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Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Drew Hobson
- Length: 43 mins
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An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selection of Ichiro’s most startling and provocative observations.
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Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro
- Narrated by: Drew Hobson
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-20
- Language: English
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War Is Beautiful
- The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 29 mins
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Best-selling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: The photo-editing process of the “paper of record”, by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.
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War Is Beautiful
- The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 25-10-19
- Language: English
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Handbook for Drowning
- A Novel in Stories
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Handbook for Drowning features interconnected stories dealing with Walter, a young man trying to understand his parents, his ideals, and his emotions. Walter Jaffe grows up in a family obsessed with social justice; Walter fixates on his own mortality. The novel's pointillistic structure reflects the gap between the grief Walter feels for his dying mother and the impersonal rationality he's been taught to practice.
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Handbook for Drowning
- A Novel in Stories
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Black Planet
- Facing Race during an NBA Season
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Donald Elivert
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and Black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in US culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly Black sport, White fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about Black heroes, Black scapegoats, and Black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN USA Award, and was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 1999.
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Black Planet
- Facing Race during an NBA Season
- Narrated by: Donald Elivert
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-10-19
- Language: English
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Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the “collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump”, and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse - a dissection of the politesse that gave rise to and sustains Trump.
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Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Jeff, One Lonely Guy
- By: Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan
- Narrated by: Jeff Ragsdale
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d get a dozen calls; instead he got hundreds, and then thousands, once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. The calls came from all over the country and from as far away as Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Taiwan, and Australia. Jeff spoke to as many people as he could, answering his phone all day long.
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Jeff, One Lonely Guy
- Narrated by: Jeff Ragsdale
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 23-05-12
- Language: English
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