Other People by Shields, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Epigraph I. Men

Comp Lit 101: Advice from My Dad Bloodline to Star Power Mr. Big Father’s Day Eulogy for My Father The Groundling Everything I Know I’ve Learned from My Bad Back Men and Games and Guns Letter to My Father

II. Women

Motherhood Love Is a Dog from Hell Usher Gookus Explains the Eternal Mysteries Desire Reflection in a One-Way Mirror Satire Ode to the Donner Party Rebecca’s Journal The Sheer Joy of Amoral Creation A Brief Survey of Ideal Desire Love Is Illusion Postcards from Rachel, Abroad Economies of Desire Despair Mask of Masks Delilah Karen A Fable

III. Athletes

Another Fable Words Can’t Begin to Describe What I’m Feeling Heaven Is a Playground Life Is Not a Playground 44 Tattoos White Bronco Being Random Is the Key to Life Bring the Pain History of America, #34 Blindness Everybody’s a Winner The Whole of American Life Is a Drama Acted Out Upon the Body of a Negro Giant

IV. Performers

The Same Air Information Sickness Why We Live at the Movies Why We Live at the Movies (ii) Why We Live at the Movies (iii) Radio Problems and Solutions to Problems Radio (ii) The Subject at the Vanishing Point Life/Art Robert Capa, Misunderstood Doubt On the Importance of Getting and Being Stupid The Only Solution to the Soul Is the Senses Almost Famous Stars He Was There; He Wasn’t Really There: Dreams About Kurt Cobain Contemporary Film Criticism

V. Alter Egos

Almost Famous (ii) The Sixties The Smarter Dog Knows When to Disobey The Heroic Mode The Wound and the Bow The Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism Negotiating Against Myself Love This Love This (ii) Remoteness Surviving with Wolves The Unknown Life Life Story Notes on the Local Swimming Hole Love Is Not a Consolation—Love Is a Light All Our Secrets Are the Same

A Note About the Author