Article in the New York Times
How the Internet and mash-up culture change everything we know about reading.
In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.” He says he’s “bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters” and much more interested in confession and “reality-based art.” His own book can be taken as Exhibit A in what he calls “recombinant” or appropriation art.
Interesting reviews
The customer reviews on Amazon of this book are very interesting. People bring some very interesting background information to the discussion about the book.
See: Amazon customer reviews of Reality Hunger
Further reading
There was a suggested further reading list that the NYT had with this article. You can see the books and their covers here.