BOOK/MAGAZINE: Texts Without Context

In his deliberately provocative and deeply nihilistic new book, Reality Hunger, the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself. He says he's bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters and much more interested in confession and reality-based art. His own book can be taken as Exhibit A in what he calls recombinant or appropriation art...

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