The New Statesman called Shields “an invigorating polemicist, as well as a subtle and amusing memoirist, while the Washington Independent Review raved, “The riffs are often dazzling and the pleasure of reading Shields is that he is so constantly amped; his writing gives off joules of intellectual energy.” Monterey County Weekly called Shields a “brainiac,” and Southern Bookman raved, “Shields pulls off a neat paradoxical trick of a book.” Knopf published the book February 5, 2013.

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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a3e6da-9ba4-11e2-8485-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/03/reviewed-how-litera…
http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/how-litera…
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2013/apr/04/life-examined/
http://louismayeux.typepad.com/southern_bookman/2013/04/david-shields-a…
http://www.bookpage.com/the-book-case/2013/03/19/9-books-for-book-lover…