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David Shields

David Shields
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of 20 books, including Reality Hunger, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, and Black Planet. Forthcoming are Flip-Side (powerHouse, 2016) and Other People (Knopf, 2017). The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and The Believer.


How the New York Times Fails to Depict the Reality of War

David Shields on Front Page Photos That Strip Combat of its Suffering
February 2, 2016  By David Shields
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