David Shield is the author of ten books. His most recent are Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010) and the New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008). His essays and stories have appeared in Harper’s, AGNI, The Yale Review, The Village Voice, Salon, Slate, and McSweeney’s. (updated 6/2010)

Shields’s Reality Hunger: A Manifesto was reviewed in AGNI Online by Thomas Larson.