“Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American socie...” — David Shields Quote

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.