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David Means

The latest news and reviews of the author David Means.

March 2019

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    Instructions for a Funeral by David Means review – brawlers and bawlers

    David Means’s latest collection of American stories confirms his standing as a master of the form

February 2017

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    Hystopia by David Means review – bewilderingly brilliant

    This Booker-shortlisted writer uses the ‘novel within a novel’ device to explore the darkness of pain and trauma

September 2016

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    The Guardian Books podcast
    Tricks of the mind with David Means and Marc Lewis – books podcast

    We talk about memory loss and addiction with Man Booker longlisted author David Means and neuroscientist Marc Lewis.

August 2016

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    Book of the day
    Hystopia by David Means – review

    Traumatised Vietnam vets maraud the streets of a reimagined 60s America in this ambitious but problematic contender for this year’s Booker

May 2016

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    David Means: ‘You can’t take a story and just stretch it out – that does not a novel make’

    The books interview: the celebrated short story writer on getting to grips with the longer form, history as fiction and trying to capture the absurdity of Vietnam
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    Book of the day
    Hystopia by David Means review – the virtuoso short story writer’s tricksy first novel

    In an alternative version of 1970s America, the Vietnam war grinds on and on; but the urgent, unspoken presences on this novel’s pages are the veterans damaged by the US’s recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
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    Literary Mixtapes by Electric Literature
    Literary Mixtape: David Means's soundtrack for reflecting on the Vietnam War

    David Means shares the music that inspired his latest book – part Vietnam War novel, part reflection on the nature of memory. From the tunes soldiers listened to, to The National, here is his playlist

November 2010

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    The Spot by David Means – review

    James Lasdun finds blighted beauty in a fine collection of stories

March 2002

  • Out of the wreckage

    David Means chisels a dangerous geography out of a bleak American landscape in Assorted Fire Events
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