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“THE VALUE OF A WORK OF ART CAN BE MEASURED BY THE HARM SPOKEN OF IT, OR THE BUSINESS OF LITERATURE IS TO BLOW SHIT UP”
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 4:30pm
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Please join the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program in welcoming writer David Shields to USC to celebrate his newly released book of essays OTHER PEOPLE: TAKES & MISTAKES (Knopf, 2017).
His author talk, titled “THE VALUE OF A WORK OF ART CAN BE MEASURED BY THE HARM SPOKEN OF IT, OR THE BUSINESS OF LITERATURE IS TO BLOW SHIT UP,” will be a conversation with Profs. Aimee Bender & Geoff Dyer.
Wednesday, February 22, 4:30 p.m.
English Dept. Ide Commons Room (THH 420)
Refreshments and book sales/signing to follow.
Free and open to the public.
After the author talk in the ENGL Dept, David Shields will give a Q&A following the screening (7PM) of I THINK YOU’RE TOTALLY WRONG: A QUARREL, a film directed by James Franco of which Shields is the writer and protagonist. Full event details, including link for rsvp:https://cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=16649
Bio: David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications); The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller); Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); War Is Beautiful (powerHouse, 2015); and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (Knopf, February 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 Believer. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
Praise for Other People: Takes & Mistakes, by David Shields:
“Other People: Takes & Mistakes aims to do nothing less than change how people think about the act of reading; in my case, it has already succeeded, beyond all measure.” —Annie Dillard
“Nobody writes about the contradictions of American culture with more insight than David Shields.”—Gerald Graff
“A romp of a book—sexy and wide-ranging. Shields has a tough time not being interesting.”—Stephen Dunn
Looking forward to seeing you there.
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