Have any questions?
(614) 292-3535
Contact Us
Past Talks & More | Public Programs
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump
Book Signing
Free for all audiences (RSVP requested)
Professors, teachers, and educators: Please contact us if you plan to assign this public program for one of your classes. Space is often limited, and we want to make any accommodations possible. Thank you.
Acclaimed and bestselling writer David Shields enthralls international audiences with introspective, genre-bending essays, short stories, and novels. In this talk, he’ll read from his new book Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, which is at once a psychological investigation, a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, a satirical compilation of wit and wisdom, and above all a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse—a dissection of the politesse that gave rise to and sustains Trump. Shields argues that we have met the enemy and he is us.
Image: David Shields, photo: Tom Collicott
David Shields has published 22 thought-provoking books including Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, named one of the best books of 2010 by over 30 publications, and Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other works include The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller); Other People: Takes & Mistakes (New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice); and a 2017 film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, a book he coauthored with Caleb Powell. His upcoming works include a book titled The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power as well as Lynch: A History and Burning Down the Louvre, documentary films written and directed by Shields.
Shields’s writing has appeared in such publications as Harper’s Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Salon, Slate Magazine, and The Believer. He currently teaches at the University of Washington as the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence and is senior contributing editor of Conjunctions, a weekly online journal for innovative writing.
The David Shields web site
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of English and Project Narrative.
SUPPORT FOR FREE AND LOW-COST PROGRAMS Huntington Bank Cardinal Health Foundation
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE WEXNER CENTER Greater Columbus Arts Council Ohio Arts Council The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation
Past Talks & More
David Shields
