"A triumphantly humane book . . . Shields is our elusive, humorous ironist, something like a 21st century Socrates. . . . He's a master stylist--and has been for a long time, on the evidence of these pieces from throughout his career. The collection can stand as a textbook for contemporary creative nonfiction: erudite, soulful and self-deprecating like John Jeremiah Sullivan; freewheeling and insatiably curious like Geoff Dyer; hilarious and precise like Elif Batuman; and always fresh, clean, vigorous and clear . . . The book's collective tone . . . is strikingly gentle, amiable and above all unpretentious. . . . All good writers make us feel less alone. But Shields makes us feel better. He takes some of the bad of our everyday life and our culture and the whole inescapable mess of being human and sends it back to us as good." --Clancy Martin, The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant and joyously readable . . . one of America's most accomplished and best writers. . . . In his certainty of getting other people wrong, David Shields is vastly more profound, entertaining, memorable and trustworthy than armies of writers whose presumptions of professional certitude and golden methodology are fatuous and mistaken to alarming degrees. Nothing David Shields writes should be ignored. Sometimes, as here, he is to be read as intently as any writer around." --Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News "From its Philip Roth epigraph to its final page, this book is tied together by what Shields calls his 'favorite idea'--that 'language is all we have to connect us, and it doesn't, not quite.'" --Bill Morris, The Millions "Wise, surprising, and relentless . . . At once an essay collection, a memoir and a critical dissection of pop culture and human relationships." --Jonathan Fullmer, Booklist (starred review) "[Other People] showcases thirty-five years of endless curiosity . . . A smart, funny collection of observations, about himself and others . . . Engaging, daring, original." --Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times "A serious book on manhood in contemporary America . . . As brainy as Sebald or Kundera." --John Domini, Los Angeles Review of BooksAn intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation.
Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, can art fill that gap? Grappling with these questions, David Shields gives us a book that is something of a revelation: seventy-plus essays, written over the last thirty-five years, reconceived and recombined to form neither a miscellany nor a memoir but a sustained meditation on otherness. The book is divided into five sections: Men, Women, Athletes, Performers, Alter Egos. Whether he is writing about sexual desire or information sickness, George W. Bush or Kurt Cobain, women's eyeglasses or Greek tragedy, Howard Cosell or Bill Murray, the comedy of high school journalism or the agony of first love, Shields's sustained, piercing focus is on the multiplicity of perspectives informing any situation, on the irreducible log jam of human information, and on the possibilities, and impossibilities, for human connection.
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