This quote stood out to me while I was reading because it suggests that “realism” differs for each artist. What feels realistic depends on how that person sees and experiences the world, so reality in art can never be completely objective. #realityhunger

Just reading the reviews on the cover, I'm excited to read this piece! #RealityHunger

Today when I hear "novel," I always think of it as a work of fiction. So it's interesting to learn about it's initial broader definition, and that it went from being viewed as a way to represent reality to representing fictional storytelling. #realityhunger

Once upon a time??? History has never stopped deciding which and whose stories were "important" enough to remember. If anything, today's political and social climate has made that reality more apparent than ever. #realityhunger

And I've never related to anything more #realityhunger

Just read chapter a, and to be quite frank, I have not a single clue of what Shield is trying to say. Let me go reread... #realityhunger #lowreadingcomprehensionskills :(

what's more "real", your experience of reality or reality itself? #realityhunger #idekanymore

Our memories are fiction, reality is subjective, does truth matter? #realityhunger

I get what he's saying. This makes me respect every writer who writes fiction and is able to get me super immersed. #realityhunger

Shields is a funny man. It's like saying breathe or blink naturally, and then you start breathing and blinking manually and unnaturally. #realityhunger

dude starts talking about something he loves and starts getting super casual and geeked out of nowhere 😂 #realityhunger

I love this sentence. Immediately implies that facts, at the end of the day, are merely our understandings of them. What does it mean for something to be true? #realityhunger

The innovation of collages forces us to consider how difficult objectivity actually is

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Further on my last point, even trying to make something feel "real" can become artificial. Found footage can feel very real when done right, but after the style gets used so much, you start to see the formula and it loses that realism. Kinda ironic. #realityhunger

Real life isn't always a neat story that goes in a perfect beginning -> conflict -> development -> conclusion order. Real life is pretty janky and there's always a lot going on. So fragmented forms of stories can be a better representation of real life than neatly prepared stories. #realityhunger

This is funny. People must've been in a frenzy cause they didn't know what to believe 🤣 #realityhunger

By the end of chapter f I could come to appreciate this book much more. What felt like dissociative world slop came to be a cohesive message by the end. I just needed to understand that the numbers were a collection of different works and not meant to be a linear story. #realityhunger

I wonder how Shields feels about evidence such as audio and video. Does the framework of imaginative non-fiction only apply to that which existed before we could gather proof of these events? Is the audience still deciding whether to believe when they can actually see it? #realityhunger

this makes me want to read some NOVELS. AM I FALLING FOR NOVEL PROPAGANDA? #realityhunger

Why are there so many types of writing and so many names for all the different genres of writing. Can we just keep it to fiction and non-fiction. #realityhunger