{"id":2336,"date":"2010-03-10T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/more-dead-novel\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:34:31","slug":"more-dead-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/10\/more-dead-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"More Dead Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/writing\/index.html?story=\/books\/laura_miller\/2010\/03\/09\/reality_hunger\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Salon.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"headline\">RIP: The novel<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"deck\">A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary world up in arms<\/h3>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/author\/laura_miller\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Miller<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"art l\"> \t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/laura_miller\/2010\/03\/09\/reality_hunger\/md_horiz.jpg\" class=\"md_horiz\" id=\"img_mps2026890\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"credit\"><em>iStockphoto\/Allkindza <\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Shields&#8217; new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307273539?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=saloncom08-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307273539\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,&#8221;<\/a> is, depending upon whom you ask, a condemnation of the novel, a celebration of the sort of remixing and collage writing that often gets slammed as plagiarism, an indictment of plot, or a defense of memoirists who fabricate. Given his infatuation with playful writing (although a playfulness so earnestly willed seems an oxymoron), Shields shouldn&#8217;t be dismayed to learn that tracking responses to &#8220;Reality Hunger&#8221; across the Web is significantly more stimulating than the book itself. When you throw that many bombs, you can expect to choke on the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/writing\/index.html?story=\/books\/laura_miller\/2010\/03\/09\/reality_hunger\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Salon<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Salon.com RIP: The novel A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary world up in arms By Laura Miller iStockphoto\/Allkindza David Shields&#8217; new book, &#8220;Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,&#8221; is, depending upon whom you ask, a condemnation of the novel, a celebration of the sort of remixing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}