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  • How We Got Here

    Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon

    by David Shields ...
    Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current "crisis" in "nonfiction"-journalism- media-"truthiness." If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters what's perceived, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Reality Hunger

    by David Shields ...
    A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Still

    American Silent Motion Picture Photography

    by David S. Shields ...
    The success of movies like The Artist and Hugo recreated the wonder and magic of silent film for modern audiences, many of whom might never have experienced a movie without sound. But while the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Provisions

    The Creation & Revival of a Cuisine

    by David S. Shields ...
    A look into the agricultural and culinary history of the American South and the challenges of its reclaiming farming and cooking traditions.Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trouble with Men

    Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power

    by David Shields ...
    Series series 21st Century Essays
    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), ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Black Planet

    Facing Race During an NBA Season

    by David Shields ...
    First published in 1994, Black Planet is at first glance a reporting of David Shields’s journey following his hometown Seattle Supersonics through the 1994-95 NBA season. He went to the team's' home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to talk, to players, coaches, and agents; attended charity events; corresponded with members of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Wonderfully Wiggly Adventures of Appleberry Fingledink

    by David Shields ...
    In cozy Jumblebrook Town,where daisies bounced in thebreeze and frogs wore smilesbigger than their bellies, liveda boy named AppleberryFingledink.Appleberry loved two thingsmost in the entire wide worldfun and surprises. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

    A Memoir

    by David Shields ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.“Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer.”—The Wall Street JournalMesmerized and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Culinarians

    Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

    by David S. Shields ...
    "[A] first ever history of the nation's foundational 'culinarians'—the chefs, caterers, and restauranteurs who made cooking an art." —Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of The Edible SouthIn this encyclopedic history of the rise of professional cooking in America, the 175 biographies include the legendary Julien, founder in 1793 of America's first restaurant, Boston's Restorator; and Louis Diat and Oscar ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trouble with Men

    Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power

    by David Shields ...
    Series series 21st Century Essays
    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), ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Very Last Interview

    by David Shields ...
    In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger, David Shields has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years.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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Christian Existentialist and a Psychoanalytic Atheist Walk Into a Trump Rally

    by David Shields, Scott Kent Jones ...
    A Christian Existentialist and a Psychoanalytic Atheist Walk Into a Trump Rally 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," ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD