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On breaking form and genre boundaries with David Shields

On breaking form and genre boundaries with David Shields

FromNotebook on Cities and Culture


On breaking form and genre boundaries with David Shields

FromNotebook on Cities and Culture

ratings:
Length:
56 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Colin Marshall talks to David Shields, professor of English at the University of Washington and author of fiction, nonfiction and various hybrids thereof about sports, autobiography, celebrity and death. His new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, uses collage writing to challenge preconceived ideas about form and genre in art, especially as they pertain to literature. Shields advocates disregarding these hardened constraints, a move which will allow art to use more of and become more like life itself.
Released:
May 6, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene all around Los Angeles and beyond.