PREMIER EVENT: DAVID SHIELDS in conversation with KAREN JOY FOWLER


 
 
 

 

 

 

Credit: Brett Hall Jones
   

PREMIER EVENT: David Shields in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler

Friday, August 21, 7:30 p.m.

That Thing You Do with Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields

 

 

It all began with an idea to make a quirky little documentary about Samantha Matthews' side gig as an English dubber of Italian pornography. But the movie morphed into a book and the book became a literary sensation: That Thing You Do with Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
 
The best-selling David Shields, author of classics of contemporary non-fiction like Reality Hunger and Black Planet, (and Matthews' cousin), has organized her reminisces into a tour de force monologue, a powerful and sustained look into a contemporary woman's psyche that has everyone from critics to casual readers enthralled. 
 
Now Shields will discuss this sexual autobiography with Karen Joy Fowler and present an audio recording of Samantha Matthews.
 
David Shields is the author of twenty 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 (a New York Times bestseller); Black Planet (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and, due out next year, War Is BeautifulI Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, co-written by Caleb Powell, has been adapted by James Franco into a film that premiered in April 2015 at Vancouver's DOXA documentary film festival. Shields's work has been translated into twenty languages.
 
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of three story collections and six novels, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award as well as the California Book Award for Fiction for 2013, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize the first year the prize was open to Americans.  She is also the author of The Jane Austen Book Club, which was on the New York Timesbestsellers list for nineteen weeks and was made into a major motion picture.  In addition, her novel Sister Noon was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Consistently acclaimed by critics, most of her titles have been New York Times Notable Books and named to many best-of-year lists.
Event date: 
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto By David Shields Cover Image
$16.95
Not available
ISBN: 9780307387974
Published: Vintage - February 8th, 2011

Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season By David Shields, Gerald Graff (Introduction by) Cover Image
By David Shields, Gerald Graff (Introduction by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780803293540
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(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Bison Books - December 1st, 2006

War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict* By David Shields, Dave Hickey (Afterword by) Cover Image
By David Shields, Dave Hickey (Afterword by)
$39.95
Not available
ISBN: 9781576877593
Published: powerHouse Books - November 10th, 2015