Immaterial Agents
David Shields
Literary fiction, nonfiction
Nordic and Dutch rights available through IMMA, In collaboration with Frances Golden Literary Agency
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-two books,
including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than
thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
(New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors’
Choice). The film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel was
released by First Pond Entertainment in 2017; forthcoming in 2019 is Lynch:
A History, a documentary film-about Marshawn Lynch’s use of silence, echo,
and mimicry as tools of resistance-that Shields produced, wrote, and
directed. Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention was published
in 2018; The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and
Power is forthcoming in March 2019. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA
fellowships and a senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, Shields has
published fiction and nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s,
Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney’s,
Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American
Essays. His books have been translated into two dozen languages.
