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.