MixedThe Globe and Mail (CAN)At its best, Reality Hunger is a suggestive, opinionated dictionary of the moment. Even when Shields plays author-as-arranger, the force of his arguments comes through ... There\'s something straw-mannish, though, in his antagonism to fiction. He fails to account for what fiction, at its most thoughtful and exhilarating, can do ... Reality Hunger falls short in its refusal to take the hunger for narrative seriously, or to consider why, culturally, we might not want to abandon fiction\'s entering of another consciousness through character ... I want people to read his book and passionately debate these issues. I want this discussion to matter. And I want to be part of it.
