The very last interview / David Shields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shields, David, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shields, David, 1956---Miscellanea.

Shields, David.

Shields, David, 1956-.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2022]

Summary:

"The Very Last Interview is a unique work, a lacerating self-examination that came about when David decided to gather every interview he ever did, going back nearly 40 years. If it was radio or TV, 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 collated and cut down to form 22 chapters focused on subjects that include 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 throughline." It's a ruthless self-dismantling in which the author, in this case, a late middle-aged white man, is strangely, thrillingly, not present. As Chuck Klosterman wrote about the book: "Logic suggests that people are best understood through the things they say, but that's not how the media usually work. People are actually defined by the questions they get asked (and the degree to which their answers can be framed to prove whatever was already assumed to be true).The Very Last Interview is David Shields doing what he has brilliantly done for the past twenty-five years: interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing the meaning of what seems both obviously straightforward and obviously wrong." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Process

Ourselves

Childhood

Speech

Reading

School

Knowledge

Truth

Art

Brokenness

Failure

Envy

Jewishness

Audience

Capitalism

Paternity

Games

Coaching

Criticism

Suicide

Comedy.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781681376424

1681376423

OCLC:

1256628888