“Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we’re in need of at the time we’re reading.” Reality Hunger, by David Shields. I liked the book for reasons that have nothing to do with the author’s main thesis, but that isn’t the sort of thing that would bother Shields in the least since part of his thesis is that I probably shouldn’t agree with his primary thesis. The quotation at the outset is from his book, though he would frown on the fact that I put it in … [Read more...] about Fiction Posing as Nonfiction
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
