David
Shields is 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.