Reality Hunger by David Shields (again)

“The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of the American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination . The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.”
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”You can always recognize the pioneers by the number of arrows in their back.”

-David Shields, 2010