{"product_id":"the-very-last-interview-paperback","title":"The Very Last Interview - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Shields\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book \u003ci\u003eReality Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e, David Shields has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid 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't sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn't interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested him--approximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, \"the real work began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions and finding a through-line.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a lacerating self-demolition in which the author--in this case, a late-middle-aged white man--is strangely, thrillingly absent. As Chuck Klosterman says, \"\u003ci\u003eThe Very Last Interview\u003c\/i\u003e is David Shields doing what he has done dazzlingly for the past twenty-five years: interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing the meaning of what seems both obviously straightforward and obviously wrong.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShields's new book is a sequel of sorts to his seminal \u003ci\u003eReality Hunger: A Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub \u003c\/i\u003erecently named one of the most important books of the last decade. According to Kenneth Goldsmith, \"Just when you think Shields couldn't rethink and reinvent literature any further, he does it again. \u003ci\u003eThe Very Last Interview\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Shields as the most dangerously important American writer since Burroughs.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Shields\u003c\/b\u003e is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eReality Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e (recently named one of the most important books of the last decade by \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller), \u003ci\u003eBlack Planet\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and \u003ci\u003eOther People: Takes \u0026amp; Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNYTBR\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2018. \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 2019. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Franco's film adaptation of \u003ci\u003eI Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel\u003c\/i\u003e, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote, produced, and directed \u003ci\u003eLynch: A History, \u003c\/i\u003e a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch's use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, a senior contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Loren Douglas Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, Shields has published fiction and nonfiction in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e His work has been translated into two dozen languages.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.7 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698804854847,"sku":"9781681376424","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9a986213a18e755cbfa9ddbf2a8654e7.webp?v=1765011428","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-very-last-interview-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}