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100 1  Shields, David,|d1956-|eauthor. 
245 14 The very last interview /|cby David Shields. 
264  1 New York :|bNew York Review Books,|c[2022] 
300    154 pages ;|c18 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tProcess --|tOurselves --|tChildhood --|tSpeech --
       |tReading --|tSchool --|tKnowledge --|tTruth --|tArt --
       |tBrokenness --|tFailure --|tEnvy --|tJewishness --
       |tAudience --|tCapitalism --|tPaternity --|tGames --
       |tCoaching --|tCriticism --|tSuicide --|tComedy --|tNext. 
520    "The Very Last Interview is a unique work, a lacerating 
       self-examination that came about when David decided to 
       gather every interview he ever did, going back nearly 40 
       years. If it was radio or TV, he transcribed it. He wasn't
       sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn't 
       interested in any of his own answers. The questions 
       interested him - approximately 2,700, which he collated 
       and cut down to form 22 chapters focused on subjects that 
       include Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, 
       and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, "the real work 
       began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions 
       and finding a throughline." It's a ruthless self-
       dismantling in which the author, in this case, a late 
       middle-aged white man, is strangely, thrillingly, not 
       present. As Chuck Klosterman wrote about the book: "Logic 
       suggests that people are best understood through the 
       things they say, but that's not how the media usually 
       work. People are actually defined by the questions they 
       get asked (and the degree to which their answers can be 
       framed to prove whatever was already assumed to be 
       true).The Very Last Interview is David Shields doing what 
       he has brilliantly done for the past twenty-five years: 
       interrogating his own intellectual experience by changing 
       the meaning of what seems both obviously straightforward 
       and obviously wrong." The Very Last Interview is a sequel 
       to Shields's seminal Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which 
       Literary Hub recently named one of the most important 
       books of the last decade. As Kenneth Goldsmith says, "Just
       when you think Shields couldn't 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.""--|cProvided 
       by publisher. 
600 10 Shields, David,|d1956-|vMiscellanea. 
650  0 Authors|zUnited States|vInterviews. 
650  0 Authors|zUnited States|vBiography. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft