The Very Last Interview
ααααΆ 2022 Β· New York Review of Books
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In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger,Β DavidΒ ShieldsΒ has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years.
David Shields decided to gather every interview heβs ever given, going back nearly forty years. If it was on the radio or TV or a podcast, he transcribed it. He wasnβt sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasnβt interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested himβapproximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, βthe real work began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions and finding a through-line.β
The result is a lacerating self-demolition in which the authorβin this case, a late-middle-aged white manβis strangely, thrillingly absent. As Chuck Klosterman says, βThe Very Last Interview is David Shields doing what he has done dazzlingly for the past twenty-five years: interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing the meaning of what seems both obviously straightforward and obviously wrong.β
Shieldsβs new book is a sequel of sorts to his seminal Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which Literary Hub recently named one of the most important books of the last decade. According to Kenneth Goldsmith, βJust when you think Shields couldnβt rethink and reinvent literature any further, he does it again. The Very Last Interview confirms Shields as the most dangerously important American writer since Burroughs.β
David Shields decided to gather every interview heβs ever given, going back nearly forty years. If it was on the radio or TV or a podcast, he transcribed it. He wasnβt sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasnβt interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested himβapproximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, βthe real work began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions and finding a through-line.β
The result is a lacerating self-demolition in which the authorβin this case, a late-middle-aged white manβis strangely, thrillingly absent. As Chuck Klosterman says, βThe Very Last Interview is David Shields doing what he has done dazzlingly for the past twenty-five years: interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing the meaning of what seems both obviously straightforward and obviously wrong.β
Shieldsβs new book is a sequel of sorts to his seminal Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which Literary Hub recently named one of the most important books of the last decade. According to Kenneth Goldsmith, βJust when you think Shields couldnβt rethink and reinvent literature any further, he does it again. The Very Last Interview confirms Shields as the most dangerously important American writer since Burroughs.β
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.
David Shields decided to gather every interview heβs ever giv...
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David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Reality Hunger (recently named one of the most important books of the last decade by Lit Hub), The Thing About Life Is That One Day Youβll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editorsβ Choice).Β
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention was published in 2018. The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power appeared in 2019.Β
James Francoβs film adaptation of I Think Youβre Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History, a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynchβs use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance.Β
A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, and the Loren Douglas Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, Shields has published fiction and nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Harperβs, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeneyβs, Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Essays. His work has been translated into two dozen languages.
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention was published in 2018. The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power appeared in 2019.Β
James Francoβs film adaptation of I Think Youβre Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History, a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynchβs use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance.Β
A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, and the Loren Douglas Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, Shields has published fiction and nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Harperβs, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeneyβs, Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Essays. His work has been translated into two dozen languages.
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Reality Hunger (recently named one of the most important books of the last decade by Lit Hub), The Thing About Life Is That One Day Youβll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for t...
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