Just how many contemporary novels even deign to admit that email, TV, and bathrooms exist?

David Shields has a more galactic-sized talent even than I had apprehended if he can produce Reality Hunger and a dozen other books from a trash heap like this

Someday you’re gonna die. Imagine having spent your life reading literature and novels

David Shields, Other People: “I once felt joy in being alive and I felt this mainly when I was playing basketball and I rarely if ever feel that joy anymore and it’s my own damn fault and that’s life”

The best parts of Reality Hunger are, paradoxically, the parts David Shields wrote himself