Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter

“In his short story, ‘Adultery,’ Tim Parks writes, ‘One lives such a short time, yet wishes to do everything, and then to recapture everything.’ Read this collection for the stories, and then read them again and again, taking great care to capture everything.” —Santi Elijah Holley, The Portland Mercury

“Half meditation on the nature of the form, half textbook for the instruction of the same, the anthology mostly succeeds on both fronts, remaining highly readable and full of erudite commentary.” —Alex McCown, The AV Club

“Worthy collection of examples of the flash essay and prose poems.” —Nichole L. Reber, Ploughshares

DAVID SHIELDS is the author of fifteen books, including Salinger; How Literature Saved My Life, published by Knopf; Reality Hunger, named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You”ll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller; Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and two NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in dozens of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington.

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