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Die, Daddy, die!
After a lifetime of competing with his father, writer David Shields has had enough. But the aged patriarch remains "cussedly, maddeningly alive."
By Louis Bayard [2008-03-04]

  • Abel3k

    I took a creative writing class with him in the mid 90s. You consider him a great writer, really? I think his style is obsessive and just odd. I read A Handbook for Drowning when I was taking his class, and it struck a chord with me because my dad had died a year earlier, but the only thing he really taught me was to get out of my head and out of the library. He is just such a strange man. I hope he enjoys life more than he seems to.

    -- fondlementalist
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    Monday, March 3, 2008 10:08 PM
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