Reality Hunger
We are all storytellers in our lives. (It’s only a few of us desperadoes who, unsatisfied with the fiction of life, go all the way into actual fiction.) We all have a narrative of ourselves as the good, brave, attractive person leading a life of pleasure and conquest: success, in this world, is measured in the correlation of our internal monologue to the reality of personal existence.
Max Dunbar reviews David Shields‘s Reality Hunger.