Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf) and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf Press)
New web technologies (and the ever-increasing availability of information) have made possible a new kind of writing. This prose uses fact and randomness rather than story and structure. Two active practitioners wave the banner for the new.
Read an excerpt from Reality Hunger.
Read an excerpt from Vanishing Point.
Banner image: David Shields (L) and Ander Monson (R)