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  • Southern Provisions

    The Creation & Revival of a Cuisine

    by David S. Shields ...
    A look into the agricultural and culinary history of the American South and the challenges of its reclaiming farming and cooking traditions.Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Culinarians

    Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

    by David S. Shields ...
    "[A] first ever history of the nation's foundational 'culinarians'—the chefs, caterers, and restauranteurs who made cooking an art." —Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of The Edible SouthIn this encyclopedic history of the rise of professional cooking in America, the 175 biographies include the legendary Julien, founder in 1793 of America's first restaurant, Boston's Restorator; and Louis Diat and Oscar ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ark of Taste

    Delicious and Distinctive Foods That Define the United States

    by David S Shields, Giselle Kennedy Lord ...
    James Beard Award and IACP Cookbook Award finalist • Explore and enjoy the heritage foods that give the United States its culinary identity, from heirloom tomatoes to Tupelo honey, in this illustrated volume for curious eaters, gardeners and home cooks.The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of our nation's food heritage preserving treasures passed down for generations—some rare, some endangered, all ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Taste the State Georgia

    Distinctive Foods and Stories from Where Eating Local Began

    by Kevin Mitchell, David S. Shields ...
    2025 Gourmand International Cookbook Award FinalistIngredient by ingredient, dish by dish, take a tantalizing tour of Georgia's signature foods"Taste the State Georgia and the regional foods within it can be a source of pride for people and communities.... This book will prepare you for your next Georgian culinary adventure and give you a bit of history on why southerners eat what they eat." ... Read more

    $27.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump

    An Intervention

    by David Shields ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the “collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump,” and above all as a dagger ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taste the State

    South Carolina's Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories

    by Kevin Mitchell, David S. Shields ...
    Bitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick • Garden & Gun 2021 Best Southern Cookbooks pick • Forbes 2021 Best New Cookbooks For Travelers • 2021 Gourmand International Cookbook Award FinalistA vivid cultural history of South Carolina's most distinctive ingredients and signature dishesFrom the influence of 1920 fashion on asparagu... ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How We Got Here

    Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon

    by David Shields ...
    Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current "crisis" in "nonfiction"-journalism- media-"truthiness." If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters what's perceived, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

    A Memoir

    by David Shields ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.“Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer.”—The Wall Street JournalMesmerized and ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fakes

    An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

    Edited by David Shields, Matthew Vollmer ...
    Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reality Hunger

    by David Shields ...
    A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • I Think You're Totally Wrong

    A Quarrel

    by David Shields, Caleb Powell ...
    An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art—beers included.Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls), whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art (he has five books coming out in the next year ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Other People

    Takes & Mistakes

    by David Shields ...
    An 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD