Shields, David

David Shields is the author of eight previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including "Black Planet" (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), "Remote" (winner of the PEN/Revson Award), and "Dead Languages" (winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award). A senior editor at "Conjunctions," Shields has published essays and stories in "The" "New" "York Times Magazine," "Harper's Magazine," "The" "Yale Review," "The Village Voice," "Salon," "Slate," "McSweeney's," and "The Believer," He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department a...