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We'll show the film, I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, James Franco's adaptation of the book of the same name, written by Caleb Powell and David Shields. The book is a tug-of-war about the vexed relationship between life and art, and the film finds a way to dramatize this conflict. In his talk after the film, Shields will try to raise what he sees as the germane questions for his students: How does art "use" life? How much of the writers' own life is "fair game"? How much of others' lives can be "used"? Is art always simultaneously caressing and exploiting? Is this true of all relationships? Definitive answers provided.
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), and Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). Other People: Takes and Mistakes was published by Knops in February 2017. His work has been translated into twenty languages.