Sam Shepard returns to the American West in his third collection of fiction, leaving stories like place markers on his steady journey across the map. In 133 short tales, dialogues and vignettes, he ...

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Though he died less than six years ago, at the age of 73, there have already been three biographies of the playwright-actor Sam Shepard. Now we have a fourth: “True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and ...

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Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. By Héctor Tobar “True West” is a ...