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Reality Hunger
- A Manifesto
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world....
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Reality Hunger
- A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2011
- Language: English
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism....
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Sundries of information and statistics about human body and death
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2011
- Language: English
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Salinger
- By: David Shields, Shane Salerno
- Narrated by: Peter Friedman, January LaVoy, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people, Salinger is a global cultural event....
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Salinger
- Narrated by: Peter Friedman, January LaVoy, Robert Petkoff, Campbell Scott
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2013
- Language: English
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Fakes
- An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
- By: David Shields, Matthew Vollmer
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum....
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Fakes
- An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2020
- Language: English
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How Literature Saved My Life
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature....
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How Literature Saved My Life
- Narrated by: Seth Michael Donsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2014
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Men
- Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy....
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The Trouble with Men
- Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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Other People
- Takes & Mistakes
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: John Dellaporta
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation....
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Other People
- Takes & Mistakes
- Narrated by: John Dellaporta
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2020
- Language: English
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Heroes
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: John Dellaporta
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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When Heroes was first published 33 years ago, the Los Angeles Reader called it “almost a parody of the modern American novel”....
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Heroes
- Narrated by: John Dellaporta
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2021
- Language: English
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- Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape....
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Remote
- Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Inevitable
- Contemporary Writers Confront Death
- By: Bradford Morrow, David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, 20 writers face this fact....
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The Inevitable
- Contemporary Writers Confront Death
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2020
- Language: English
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Dead Languages
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In the face of many well-meaning, but often misguided attempts to cure him of his stutter, young Jeremy Zorn develops both an astonishing prowess as an athlete and a large vocabulary, and comes to understand the power of language....
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Dead Languages
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2020
- Language: English
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Body Politic
- The Great American Sports Machine
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: John Drennan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports....
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Body Politic
- The Great American Sports Machine
- Narrated by: John Drennan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2020
- Language: English
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Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Drew Hobson
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selection of Ichiro’s most startling and provocative observations....
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Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro
- Narrated by: Drew Hobson
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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Enough About You
- Notes Toward the New Autobiography
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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What does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What’s gained? What’s lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper truths are reached or at least reached for....
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Enough About You
- Notes Toward the New Autobiography
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2020
- Language: English
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War Is Beautiful
- The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: The photo-editing process of the “paper of record”, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers....
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War Is Beautiful
- The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
- Narrated by: Dave Elvin
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2019
- Language: English
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Handbook for Drowning
- A Novel in Stories
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Handbook for Drowning features interconnected stories dealing with Walter, a young man trying to understand his parents, his ideals, and his emotions....
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Handbook for Drowning
- A Novel in Stories
- Narrated by: Mike Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2019
- Language: English
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Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump....
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Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2019
- Language: English
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That Thing You Do with Your Mouth
- The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
- By: David Shields, Samantha Matthews
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Actress and voiceover artist Samantha Matthews offers a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history....
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That Thing You Do with Your Mouth
- The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2015
- Language: English
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Jeff, One Lonely Guy
- By: Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan
- Narrated by: Jeff Ragsdale
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan asking people to call him if they wanted to talk....
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Jeff, One Lonely Guy
- Narrated by: Jeff Ragsdale
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2012
- Language: English
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The Very Last Interview
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger, David Shields has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years....
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The Very Last Interview
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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