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Das Leben ist einfach, tragisch und schön", schreibt David Shields. Der Gedanke, dass alles, was lebt vergänglich ist, kann auf eine seltsame Weise befreiend sein. Das Buch erzählt davon, wie alles auf den Tod zuläuft. Paradox ist, dass der Leser dabei geradezu in eine Leichtigkeit des Seins gerät. Es geht in dem Buch nur scheinbar um den Tod. In Wirklichkeit geht es um das Leben. Was bedeutet der Tod für das Leben? Selten ist über diese Frage...

All-star pitcher Shields tells the story of how the 2010 Tampa Bay Rays handled the heat during the most critical part of the season--the pennant races. Along the way, he offers insights into the Rays, opposing teams, the art of pitching, and what is going through his mind at key moments in the Rays' stretch run.

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In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that they've found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit ...

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An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selection of Ichiro Suzuki’s most startling and provocative observations. Updated to reflect his move to the New York Yankees in July 2012, the book also includes a revised Introduction by acclaimed nonfiction writer David Shields. When Ichiro was traded to the Yankees on July 23, 2012, the news made headlines around the world. He will finish...

One of the most respected voices in the sports writing field presents a collection of essays that use sports as the lens through which to view the American character.

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Life Is Short-Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories, readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology, a course's worth of writing exercises, a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age, and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.1. We are mortal beings.2. There is no god.3. We live in a digital culture.4. Art is...

In the next decade, six million North American families will be caring for someone with a disability. But other disabled people are not so lucky, left to live in isolation and without support in an era of federal and state cutbacks. This extraordinary book is about the transforming power of family and community on "vulnerable" individuals-the mentally challenged, the mentally ill, the elderly-and how these efforts enrich us as a society. The b...

Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. This book reveals how the true ingredients of southern cooking have been all but forgotten and how the lessons of its restoration and recultivation can be applied to other regional foodways.

* (in which the author explains why he no longer reads The New York Times)Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the "paper of record, " by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers, Shields forces us to face not only the the media's compl...

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Nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this - which is what makes it essential.' David Shields

Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. The stay-at-home dad (three young girls) and the workaholic writer (eighteen books) head to the woods to spend four days together in a cabin, arguing life vs. art. I Think You're Totally Wrong is an impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-th...

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Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, because the varied crops and livestock that originally defined this cuisine have largely disappeared. Now a growing movement of chefs and farmers is seeking to change that by recovering th...

An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, can art fill that gap? Grappling with these questions, David Shields gives us a book tha...

A landmark book, "brilliant, thoughtful" (The Atlantic) and "raw and gorgeous" (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shie...

An instant New York Times bestseller, this "explosive biography” (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is "as close as we'll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger's head” (Entertainment Weekly). This "revealing” (The New York Times) and "engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) oral biography, "fascinating and unique” (The Washington Post) and "an unmitigated success” (USA TODAY), has redefined our ...