(This is Part II. Click here to read Part I.) In his recent book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, author David Shields offers an intriguing perspective: Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one’s personal life had nothing to do with fiction, whereas the truth, as everybody knows, is nearly the direct opposite. Moreover, contrary evidence was all around me, though I chose to ignore it, for in fact the fiction both published and unpublished that moved and pleased me then as now was precisely that which had been made luminous, undeniably authentic by having been found and taken … Read more »
