David Shields

I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.