David Shields

Memoirist (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, Enough About You), sportswriter (Body Politic, Baseball Is Just Baseball) novelist (A Handbook for Drowning, Dead Languages) and Guggenheim Fellow David Shields will visit the Booksmith in honor of his latest work, Reality Hunger, that ... (more)left Jonathan Lethem “astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed.”

DAVID SHIELDS
THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS THAT ONE DAY YOU'LL BE DEAD
David Shields, Seattle author and the recipient of numerous awards for his writing, talks about his thought-provoking book—now in paperback—a unique double-memoir that presents his and his father's life stories along with facts ... (more)about aging and death. "Shields undergoes his midlife crisis and comes out the other side—more accessible than ever before, more tender, 'nicer.' And yet The Thing About Life adroitly sidesteps sentimentality—very hard to do when the core of it is a son's love for his cranky, tenacious, irascible, geriatric Jewish father. I love this book." ~ David Guterson

“Mix equal parts of anatomy and autobiography, science and self-disclosure, physiology and family history; shake, stir, add dashes of miscellany, pinches of borrowed wisdom, simmer over a low-grade fever of mortality, and a terrible beauty of a book is born. They made a great model when they made his ... (more)father, and a reliable witness when they made the son. This diamond of a book—brilliant with homage and anecdote—might outlive them both.” -- Thomas Lynch, The Boston Globe

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(doors open at 7:00pm)

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