Full title: Other people : takes & mistakes / David Shields.

Author/creator: Shields, David, 1956-.

Call Numbers: G 2017/5759

Record Identifier: 74VKVgBZrzpZ

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xi, 369 pages ; 25 cm, , , , I. Men -- Comp Lit 101: advice from my dad -- Bloodline to star power -- Mr. Big -- Father's Day -- Eulogy for my father -- The groundling -- Everything I know I've learned from my bad back -- Men and games and guns -- Letter to my father -- II. Women -- Motherhood -- Love is a dog from hell -- Usher -- Gookus explains the eternal mysteries -- Desire -- Reflection in a one-way mirror -- Satire -- Ode to the Donner party -- Rebecca's journal -- The sheer joy of amoral creation -- A brief survey of ideal desire -- Love is illusion -- Postcards from Rachel, abroad -- Economies of desire -- Despair -- Mask of masks -- Delilah -- Karen -- A fable -- III. Athletes -- Another fable -- Words can't begin to describe what I'm feeling -- Heaven is a playground -- Life is not a playground -- 44 tattoos -- White bronco -- Being random is the key to life -- Bring the pain -- History of America, #34 -- Blindness -- Everybody's a winner -- The whole of American life is a drama acted out upon the body of a Negro giant -- IV. Performers -- The same air -- Information sickness -- Why we live a the movies -- Why we live at the movies (ii) -- Why we live at the movies (iii) -- Radio -- Problems and solutions to problems -- Radio (ii) -- The subject at the vanishing point -- Life/art -- Robert Capa, misunderstood -- Doubt -- The only solution to the soul is the senses -- Almost famous -- Stars -- He was there; he wasn't really there: dreams about Kurt Cobain -- Contemporary film criticism -- V. Alter egos -- Almost famous (ii) -- The sixties -- The smarter dog knows when to disobey -- The heroic mode -- The wound and the bow -- The cultural contradictions of late capitalism -- Negotiating against myself -- Love this -- Love this (ii) -- Remoteness -- Surviving with wolves -- The unknown life -- Life story -- Notes on the local swimming hole -- Love is not a consolation -- love is a light -- All our secrets are the same.

Publishers: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Notes: "This is a Borzoi book" -- Title page verso.

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DDC: 814.54

MMS ID: 991024148801002626