Then as I started to put the book together, the title came into focus, and after I read Ben Lerner’s book and used that to write the prologue to my book, I newly saw the structure of my book. It all seemed to be part of something about life and art, but I didn’t know where exactly it was headed. It wasn’t as if I thought, “I need to write a sequel or a prequel to Reality Hunger.” I was just writing stuff here and there, I’d write a section or a fragment. As I wrote the book, I didn’t even know what it was about for the longest time. It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about it very much before writing. How did you process that inevitability in your own mind while writing it?ĭavid Shields It took me a while. One thing that dawned on me as I was reading it was that this book is inevitably going to be read as a “sequel” to Reality Hunger. Eric Lorberer: Let’s talk about your new book, How Literature Saved My Life.
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