Banality Inside Out

David Shields

To the Editors:

Pace Lorrie Moores mention of my book Reality Hunger in her review of three memoirs [What If?, NYR, May 12], Reality Hunger is neither an anti-novel jihad (Geoff Dyers jocular reference in his laudatory discussion of my book in the Guardian) nor a brief for the memoir. It is instead, as should be abundantly clear to anyone who has read the book, an argument for ...


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