Podcasts about reality hunger

Author David Shields returns to the show for a conversation about his new documentary, HOW WE GOT HERE, and the companion book, HOW WE GOT HERE: Melville plus Nietzsche divided by the square root of Allan Bloom times Žižek squared = Bannon (Sublation Media). We get into how the world moved from the death of God to the death of essence to the death of truth, and how deconstruction, once the province of left-wing academia, was weaponized by right-wing authoritarians for political aims. We talk about how much blame he bears for all this with his 2010 book Reality Hunger, how it feels to be a radical with deep skepticism of radicals' language, his affinity for Werner Herzog's notion of the ecstatic truth in documentary films, what he learned from interviewing nonfiction writers about the nature of truth, and how he feels about going to his first WWE event. We also discuss nonlinear warfare and the endless deconstruction of reality, how writing can "build a bridge across the abyss of human loneliness" (per DFW), what he's learned from the collaboration of making documentaries, his fixation on hamartia (the tragic flaw), Walter Benjamin's notion of pursuing the truth even if we'll never reach it, bringing the public, social and personal worlds together in his writing, and a lot more. More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Stripe, Patreon, or Paypal, and subscribe to our e-newsletter

A new 'Craftwork' episode about the art of literary collage. My guest is David Shields, author of How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Zizek (Squared) Equals Bannon and A Christian Existentialist and a Psychoanalytic Atheist Walk Into a Trump Rally, both of which are available from Sublation Media. Shields also wrote and directed a documentary film called How We Got Here, based on his book and available now on Prime and other platforms. ***Note: Here is a list of some of David's favorite works of literary collage. Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-five books, including Reality Hunger (which, in 2020, Lit Hub named one of the most important books of the past decade), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (New York Timesbestseller), Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award), Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity (PEN/Revson Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors' Choice). The Very Last Interview was published by New York Review Books in 2022. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Shields--a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions--has published essays and stories in New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Essays. His work has been translated into two dozen languages. The film adaptation of I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017 and is now available as a DVD on Prime Video. Shields wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History, a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch's use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance (streaming on Prime, Peacock, AMC, Sundance, Apple, and many other platforms). I'll Show You Mine, a feature film that Shields co-wrote and was produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, was released in 2023 and is now available on Prime and several other platforms. A new film, How We Got Here, which Shields wrote and directed and which argues that Melville plus Nietzsche divided by the square root of (Allan) Bloom times Zizek (squared) equals Bannon, is streaming now on Prime and several other platforms; the companion volume is forthcoming in September 2024. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2:53:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Tactical Spork, utensil drawers, food cups, Aahana’s Madras Quinoa & Lentil Bowl, the debate, Lentiful, Seaboard Arcana, Ocean Grove, NJ, PlayStation, Pandemonium 2, Square Maniacs ’98, Parasite Eve, Reality Hunger, personas, The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to Lost Universes – Second Edition, Lentiful Mexican […]

2:53:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Tactical Spork, utensil drawers, food cups, Aahana’s Madras Quinoa & Lentil Bowl, the debate, Lentiful, Seaboard Arcana, Ocean Grove, NJ, PlayStation, Pandemonium 2, Square Maniacs ’98, Parasite Eve, Reality Hunger, personas, The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to Lost Universes – Second Edition, Lentiful Mexican […]

David Shield's is the author of the upcoming book "How We Got Here" along with dozens of other bestselling books such as "Reality Hunger" and "The Thing About Life is One Day You'll Be Dead." In this episode of Diet Soap Douglas Lain uses the Black Mirror Episode "Joan is Awful" as an example that helps to explain the ideas in David Shield's' book.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Michael talks with David Shields about THE VERY LAST INTERVIEW, the consequence of choosing art over life, the link between humor and hopelessness, the plots underneath his collage or "plotless" work, books that are about what they're about, a new co-written film I'LL SHOW YOU MINE, the beauty and inevitable failure of an interview, new projects, and more.David Shields is the author of The Very Last Interview (NYRB, 2022) and over twenty previous books, including Reality Hunger and How Literature Saved My Life. He's also the director of the film Lynch: A History and cowriter of the film I'll Show You Mine.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Critic Leo Robson is our erudite and eloquent guide as we lose ourselves in the estuaries and marshes of Henry James’s sinuous “blue river of truth.” We begin in the archives of Leo’s G-chat and Whatsapp messages, where he first heard--and ignored--whispers of KOK’s boundless literary project. His indifference breaks down, however, after he and friend of the pod Christian Lorentzen take a desultory post-stag-party walk through Barcelona. A lugubrious Leo, sick of John Berger’s Marxist reading of Picasso, opens his Blackberry to find that James Wood has written an essay on Perr Petersen, which makes him think of that other Norwegian, the one with the endless maybe-novel underway, which leads him back to Lauren and Drew, who discover their friendship is coterminous with My Struggle’s publication history: they met, devoted listeners will know, over a drunken discussion about The Queen is Dead in summer 2010, just after Volume 1 had appeared on American Shores. Where are they now,  in their actual reading of My Struggle itself? Leo asks. “I don’t fucking know,” says Lauren.  Leo’s self-described “big data” survey of Knausgaardiana elicits comparisons between chronological expansions and contractions in My Struggle and Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”--are these examples of “big data” narratives? Richard Brody will soon be coming on the pod soon to anatomize Linklater’s use of time.   Leo suggests that Harold Brodkey and Adam Mars-Jones might be seen as Knausgaard’s precursors in the aesthetic tradition of what Wood lyrically deemed “autopsied minutiae” and “psycho-pointillism” (Lauren jeers at the latter term).  Drew takes this opportunity to proclaim Brodkey his “hero.” Drew and Leo discuss a near-mythical public conversation between James Wood and Brodkey, held in London in 1991. Link: https://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/ICA-talks/024M-C0095X0801XX-0100V0 We then embark on a disorderly Odyssey into Knausgaard’s reception in the anglosphere--and, somehow, into the history of realism and its discontents. For Schylla and Charybdis, we have David Shields and V.S. Pritchett (or something like that). Along the way, Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner and Frederick Jameson help us pick apart the itemized thinginess ("choisisme") of Knausgaard’s project: are things differentiated? Are things merely commodified, or, in their very banality, redeemed? Robbe-Grillet and his New Novelists provide an obsessively textural counterpoint to Knausgaard’s seemingly blank litanies of objects and products.  Geoff Dyer takes a break from writing a blurb for Lauren’s eponymous Easter roast chicken to serve as another formal model for My Struggle and its reverberations. Like Brodkey and Mars-Jones, in his work, “nothing happens in a really a big way.” Here Drew invokes sensuous sun worshipper John Updike who, via a review of The Adventures of a Photographer in Los Platas by Adolfo Bioy Cesares, provides us with these weirdly apt sentences: “The novel arrests our attention and wins our respect by the things it disdains to do: it does not overdramatize or moralize, it denies events a deeper meaning. A clean if desolate flatness results” Does KoK fit into David Shields’ anti-novelistic canon of Reality Hunger? Lauren and Leo get into some narratological weeds: is Karl Ove an ironized character, or a source of Shields-approved wisdom writing?  Things are rambling along nicely until Drew “artlessly opens a can of worms.” Defending the so-called novelistic tradition against Shields’ claims of lifeless conventionality and formal tidiness, he brandishes a long quotation from V.S. Pritchett’s essay on Dead Souls (first collected in In My Good Books, 1942) :  “The modern novel has reached such a pitch of competence and shapeliness that we are shocked at the disorderliness of the masterpieces. In the modern novel we are looking at a neatly barbered suburban garden; in the standard works how often do we have the impression of bowling through the magnificent gateway of a demesne only to find the house and gardens are unfinished or patched up anyhow, as if the owner had tired of his money in the first few weeks and after that had passed his life in a daydream of projects for ever put off. We feel the force of a great power which is never entirely spent, but which cannot be bothered to fulfill itself. In short, we are up against the carelessness, the lethargy, the enormous bad taste of genius, its slovenly and majestic conceit that anything will do”  Pritchett inspires Leo  to give us an intricate tour of the history of tensions between form and chaos in the novel: the wet and the dry, the tidy and baggy. “We’ve conspired to mention every writer in the Western canon,” Leo says. “There’s the mess and the chaos--but there’s also the art.”     

I’ve been on a gigantic yak-shave for the last few months exploring storytelling theories, so I figured I’d start a new blogchain to compile my findings. The most useful line about stor… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/02/16/storytelling-harmon-vs-mckee/ Walter BenjaminReality Hungergloss on the Hero’s JourneyWriter’s JourneySave the Cateight wordsStoryDialoguea classicpairstrategic intuitioncoup d’oeilTempo

I’ve been on a gigantic yak-shave for the last few months exploring storytelling theories, so I figured I’d start a new blogchain to compile my findings. The most useful line about stor… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/02/16/storytelling-harmon-vs-mckee/ Walter BenjaminReality Hungergloss on the Hero’s JourneyWriter’s JourneySave the Cateight wordsStoryDialoguea classicpairstrategic intuitioncoup d’oeilTempo

My guests are David Shields, Nick Toti, and Rachel Kempf. We talk about The Very Last Interview (Shields' forthcoming book), film-adapted by Toti and Kempf and released this month. Shields is the author of over twenty books including Reality Hunger, Other People, How Literature Saved My Life, The Trouble with Men, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, etc. While The Very Last Interview will not be released until early 2022 by New York Review Books, Toti released the 30 minute short earlier this month via Vimeo. Special Guests: David Shields, Nick Toti, and Rachel Kempf.

Michael talks to David Shields, Nick Toti, and Rachel Kempf about The Very Last Interview (Shields's forthcoming book), film-adapted by Toti and Kempf and released this month. Shields is the author of over twenty books including Reality Hunger, Other People, How Literature Saved My Life, The Trouble with Men, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, etc. While The Very Last Interview will not be released until early 2022 by New York Review Books, Toti released the 30 minute short earlier this month via Vimeo. In this episode, we were still using the name, The Autofocus Literary Podcast.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik and Bertholet "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

David Shields is an American writer and filmmaker who uses collage to destabilize genre. He is the author of twenty-two books, including Reality Hunger and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead and the director of Lynch: A History. Visit us on Twitter - twitter.com/geekvibesnation Website - https://geekvibesnation.com #Interview #MarshawnLynch #Podcast Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/geek-vibes-nation/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

David Shieldsis the guest. His two most recent books are The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (Mad Creek Books) and Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention (Thought Catalog Books). Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-two books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors’ Choice). The film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel was released by First Pond Entertainment in 2017. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, and Believer. His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He lives in Seattle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest is David Shields. His new book, The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Men-Reflections-Marriage-Century/dp/0814255191) 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. While unashamedly intellectual, it’s also irresistibly readable and extremely moving. Over five increasingly intimate chapters, Shields probes the contours of his own psyche and marriage, marshalling a chorus of other voices that leaven, deepen, and universalize his experience; his goal is nothing less than a deconstruction of eros and conventional masculinity. Masterfully woven throughout is an unmistakable and surprisingly tender cri de coeur to his wife. The risk and vulnerability on display are in the service of radical candor, acerbic wit, real emotion, and profound insight—exactly what we’ve come to expect from Shields, who, in an open invitation to the reader, leaves everything on the page. David Shields is the internationally best-selling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger _(named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and _Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors’ Choice selection). The film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel was released by First Pond Entertainment in 2017. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Believer. His work has been translated into two dozen languages. Special Guest: David Shields.

All the best stories are true, hevdar David Shields, forfattaren bak boka Reality Hunger som kom i 2010. Har han rett i det? Den såkalla “virkelighetslitteraturen” er eit internasjonalt fenomen som vekkjer sterke kjensler og skaper store overskrifter. Norheim sporar denne tendensen bakover og ser på endringar både i realitetar og fiksjonar slik dei kjem til syne i litteratur skriven av forfattarar som har debutert frå 1990-talet og framover. Langs sporet ligg slikt som navlegransking, barndomsskildringar og regional dikting. Marta Norheim har arbeidd med litteratur i NRK i ei årrekkje. I 2007 gav ho ut boka Røff guide til samtidslitteraturen. No, ti år etter, kjem oppfølgjaren: Oppdateringar frå lykkelandet. Røff guide til samtidslitteraturen 2.

Føredrag med Marta Norheim. All the best stories are true, hevdar David Shields, forfattaren bak boka Reality Hunger som kom i 2010. Har han rett i det? Den såkalla “virkelighetslitteraturen” er eit internasjonalt fenomen som vekkjer sterke kjensler og skaper store overskrifter. Norheim sporar denne tendensen bakover og ser på endringar både i realitetar og fiksjonar slik dei kjem til syne i litteratur skriven av forfattarar som har debutert frå 1990-talet og framover. Langs sporet ligg slikt som navlegransking, barndomsskildringar og regional dikting. Marta Norheim har arbeidd med litteratur i NRK i ei årrekkje. I 2007 gav ho ut boka Røff guide til samtidslitteraturen. No, ti år etter, kjem oppfølgjaren: Oppdateringar frå lykkelandet. Røff guide til samtidslitteraturen 2.

Matthew Salesses is the guest. He is the author of two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get, and his new novel is called I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying, which is published by Civil Coping Mechanisms.  Matt Bell raves “In Matt Salesses’s smart novel-in-shorts, a newly-minted father flees telling his own story by any means necessary—by sarcasm, by denial, by playful and precise wordplay—rarely allowing space for his emerging feelings to linger. But the truth of who we might be is not so easily escaped, and it is in the accumulation of many such moments that our narrator, like us, is revealed: both the people we have been, and the better people we might be lucky enough to one day hope to become.” And Catherine Chung says “Matthew Salesses has written an extraordinary and startlingly original novel that explores connection and disconnection, the claims and limitations of the self, and the shifting terrain of truth. Poetic, unforgettable, shot through with fury and yearning, I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying captures in clear and chilling flashes our capacity for the cruelty and tenderness of love.” Also in this episode:  a conversation with Reality Hunger author David Shields. His new book, How Literature Saved My Life, is now availalble from Knopf. And later this year, in September, he will publish The Private War of J.D. Salinger, co-authored by Shane Salerno. Monologue topics: mail, literary ambulance chasing, luck, cause and effect, beautiful people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 89 of Fireside Chat, we start out by discussing The Hunt, a new Hunger Games-style reality show that has been ordered by the CW. EW has summarized the show as follows: "In 'The Hunt,' 12 teams of two are dropped into the wilderness without food, water or shelter. They must compete in a game where they'll rely on their physicality, survival skills and hunting skills to endure the harsh conditions and 'capture' one another." What do you think? Is this a bad idea? Are you horrified and/or disturbed? Or do you think it sounds like a fun concept? We then do a round of Catching Fire Pick a Page, so get your books ready! We spend the rest of the show pulling topics out of our grab bag. Update: All the topics we pulled out of our grab bag are listed below! Did Katniss and Peeta name their children in a Harry Potter manner after their dead loved ones? (from Matilda) Would you rather face off against Cato or wrestle Thresh? (from McKenna K.) Crackpot Theory: Johanna and Finnick were dating before the Quarter Quell. (from McKenna K.)

In Episode 8 of Fireside Chat, in addition to representatives from some of the top fan sites on the web, our expert panel includes Natalie Zutter, Associate Editor at Crushable.com, Kat Rosenfield of MTV's Hollywood Crush blog, and Ariel Birdoff, children's publishing expert and lead singer of Madam Pince and the Librarians. We kick off the show with a discussion of the latest movie news, dissecting the now-famous Entertainment Weekly cover and weighing in on all the recent casting decisions. We are then joined by sports writer and Hunger Games enthusiast Susan Shan and It's Kind of a Funny Story author Ned Vizzini, whose essay "Reality Hunger" appears in The Girl Who Was on Fire. We conclude with a discussion about Lenny Kravitz as Cinna after reacting in real-time ("Oh my god!" "Are you joking!?" "WHAT!!!???") to the surprising announcement.

Meghan O’Rourke, Troy Patterson and Jody Rosen discuss David Shields’ book, Reality Hunger - A Manifesto. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices