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Seelig, Dayna
- Name(s)
- Dayna Seelig
- Date of Birth
- Residence(s)
- Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky
- Education
- Ph.D. in Kinesiology and Exercise Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1994
- Bachelors degree, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, 1988
- Life Events
- Employment
- Self-employed, Kentucky Spirited Chef, Mount Sterling, Kentucky, 2018-present
- Professor of Exercise Science, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, 1991-2017
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Professor
- Chef
- Writer
Beyond the Glass: Bourbon Recipes from Horse Country by ISBN: 9780692186855Publication Date: 2018-09-28Kentucky has a rich southern heritage but blends culinary arts from several cultural backgrounds. I was raised in Lexington, Ky and on a horse farm in Fleming County, KY. The traditions of Kentucky Bourbon and wonderfully flavorful country food were a part of my life from childhood. My grandmother and mother cooked and baked with bourbon before it became the current world-wide phenomenon. Bourbon and horses are hallmarks of Kentucky and the Bluegrass region. The Kentucky Bourbon distilleries provide the chef with many world recognized bourbon brands which enhance and extend flavors in a variety of recipes. Within this book many selections came from a family recipe book dating from the early 1900-1940s including multi-generational recipes dating before 1900. All recipes were carefully chosen bourbon dishes that have been perfected through the years and are guaranteed to become your family and your guest's favorite dishes that will have them asking for more. Many cookbooks have pages of text and include 150 plus recipes. Beyond the Glass includes only the most coveted bourbon recipes that my family and friends request repeatedly. There is no need to search through countless text recipes and wondering if you have prepared them correctly. There are photos of finished dishes, serving suggestions, as well as stories about the recipe. It will inspire you to create a table your friends will enjoy. This book would be the perfect gift for any bourbon-lover, chef, cook or inspiring cook in your family.
Kentucky Spirited Treasures: Bourbon, Wine & 'Shine by ISBN: 9780578525303Publication Date: 2019-09-09Kentucky has a rich history of producing spirits. Kentucky is the birthplace for bourbon and is America's only native spirit made with at least 51% corn and must be made in the United States with very exacting standards to be called bourbon. Moonshine was a source of illicit income in the Appalachian region for many years during the 20th Century. In 2010 the government legalized moonshine products allowing for wide distribution. The first commercial vineyard in the United States was planted along the Kentucky River and currently more than 60 wineries or vineyards are producing grapes and/or wine for sale. These spirited treasures began in Kentucky and they play an integral role in our heritage, agriculture, families and cuisine. During prohibition distillers provided "liquid refreshment" to those who knew how to make a connection, and speakeasys dotted the countryside. Currently Kentucky boasts wine and bourbon festivals; the Kentucky Bourbon Trail (TM); vineyard tours; and Kentucky Proud products made with bourbon, wine and moonshine. Kentucky has a rich and diverse culinary heritage drawing from many regions and cultures. Many of my family's historic recipes called for a "a teacup" or "lots of butter" as part of the list of ingredients, but now have been revised to include measurements we all recognize. All recipes are carefully chosen and tested dishes using Kentucky spirits. They incorporate both new creations and family favorite recipes guaranteed to become new favorites of your family and guests.
Semones, Charles
- Name(s)
- Charles Semones
- Charles William Semones
- Date of Birth
- August 25, 1937
- Deep Creek area, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Date of Death
- September 13, 2015
- Residence(s)
- Deep Creek area, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Education
- B.A. in Education, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
- Life Events
- Member of the Academy of American Poets
- Served in the United States Army Reserves
- Employment
- Teacher, Mercer County School District, Mercer County, Kentucky
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Teacher
- Writer
- Poet
Afternoon in the Country of Summer: New and Selected Poems by ISBN: 9781893239173Publication Date: 2003-01-01Poems; 145 pages.
And All the Layered Light: Last Poems by ISBN: 9781603060387Publication Date: 2007-05-01Poems; 143 pages. Using the settings and imagery of his native rural Kentucky, Charles Semones creates in this new collection of his poems a world of longing and desire, of passion and pursuit, of rapture and depression. In his reclusive, gospel-drenched, haunted world of draped mirrors and desperate dog days of summer, the poet-lover moves along his lonely route seeking and hoping for at least a brief respite from the Gothic horrors, internal and external, that curse his journey. Semones's own autobiographical travels and travails, which he has translated into a universal poetry of the soul, will resonate deeply with anyone who thinks deeply about the human condition. You may identify his condition with your own dark night of the soul, praying, like him, for light and bliss at the end of the way. Reactions to the poetry in this new collection will be extreme. Regardless of what you may think about Semones's world and his experiences in it, I am certain that you will be affected by his inspired and expertly crafted poetry. This is Southern Gothic writing at its finest. It is good poetry that transcends time and place.
A Storm of Honey: Notes From the Sabbath Country by ISBN: 9781893239319Publication Date: 2004-08-01A collection of essays by one of Kentucky's leading poets. Included are biographical pieces informed by small town America, a meditation on the conflagration of WWII, and tributes to Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Henry David Thoreau.
- Interview with Charles Semones, November 1, 1992Curated by the University of Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Part of the Kentucky Writers Oral History Project. Summary, "Charles W. Semones discusses the role of religion in his life and in his poetry, the role of poetry in his life, his poetry itself, being a poet in a rural area, and what he perceives as estrangement from other Kentucky writers due to his being "just" an elementary school language arts teacher."
- Wade Hall's Kentucky Desk: Interview with Charles Semones (10-18-95) byPublication Date: 1995Videocassette (VHS); approx. 30 minutes.
- Charles William Semones, obituaryObituary at the Sims Funeral Services
- "In Memoriam: Sabbath Country poet Charles Semones, 1937-2015"Memoriam in NewSouthBooks.com by Lisa Harrison; October 8, 2015.
Shaffer, Andrew
- Name(s)
- Andrew Shaffer
- Pseudonym: Fanny Merkin
- Date of Birth
- November 11, 1978
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Residence(s)
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Iowa City, Iowa
- Portland, Oregon
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Education
- M.B.A., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2008
- B.A. in English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 2004
- Life Events
- Married to author Tiffany Reisz
- Awards and Recognitions
- Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Hope Rides Again, 2019
- Indiebound and Barnes & Nobles Bestseller for Hope Rides Again, 2019
- Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Hope Never Dies, 2018
- New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Indiebound, and Barnes & Noble Bestseller for Hope Never Dies, 2018
- New York Times Bestseller for How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters, 2014
- Alternate for the Literary Rogues Book-of-the-Month Club, 2013
- Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist for Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, 2012
- Employment
- Teaches writing, Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, Lexington, Kentucky
- Teaches writing, Louisville Literary Arts, Louisville, Kentucky
- Publisher at 8th Circle Press
- Owner and director of Order of St. Nick
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Publisher
- Writer
Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors by ISBN: 9780062077288Publication Date: 2013-02-05Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis. Literary Rogues is a wildly funny and illuminating history and analysis of the bad boys and girls of lit, from the author of Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love Part nostalgia, part serious history of Western literary movements, Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors is a raucous celebration of oft-vilified writers and their work, brimming with interviews, research, and personality.
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by ISBN: 9780061969812Publication Date: 2011-01-04"Amazing stories! Incredible quotes! Sordid details! This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love." -- Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors. What do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have in common? That's right: they were all hopeless failures when it came to romance. Author Andrew Shaffer explores the paradox at the core of Western philosophical thought--that history's greatest thinkers were also the most pathetic lovers to ever walk the earth. With razor-sharp wit and probing insight, Shaffer shows how it's the philosophers' missteps, as much as their musings, that are able to truly boggle the intellect.
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This by ISBN: 9781983777271Publication Date: 2018-02-10"If you're looking for something tart to cut the holiday sweetness, Shaffer offers a naughty little treat." - The Gazette"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This" is an off-beat collection of Christmas parodies, essays, poems, and cartoons by New York Times bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer.Previously published as "The Shelf on the Elf," this newly-expanded holiday cult classic has it all: holiday pickles, regret, talking lambs, and knife-wielding maniacs.
Let's See Them Poems by ISBN: 9781949769104Publication Date: 2020-05-26In his debut chapbook, bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer explores alienation in its myriad forms, from cultural ("Don't try to explain Fortnite to me/I don't care") to romantic ("We'll always have that poem about Paris"). Playful, hilarious, and affectingly human, Shaffer's poetry will bring a smile to the face of anyone who has ever felt like an alien in this world.
Look Mom I'm a Poet (and So Is My Cat) by ISBN: 9781949769142Publication Date: 2021-05-11For fans of SNL'S Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey and Billy Collins, a new book of humor from New York Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer.160 pages of new and collected poems. With original photos by the author.
The Summer Of '82: The Poetry of Brett Kavanaugh by ISBN: 9781724190574Publication Date: 2018-09-30This slim but attractive volume collects the poetry of Bart "I Like Beer" O'Kavanaugh, who is definitely not Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee whose level-headed testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee captured the attention of the nation.
Catsby by ISBN: 9781548682293Publication Date: 2016-01-01Jay Z. Catsby throws the sickest parties on the Jersey Shore. His neighbor Dick has heard all the rumors: Catsby killed a man. He's richer than Blue Ivy. He's Hugh Jackman's butt double in the X-Men movies. As Dick soon learns, the truth is far stranger. Catsby is a "furry" who spends his days and nights in a cat costume, pining away for Dick's cousin Dandelion, a manic-pixie Brooklynite with a brutish husband. Will Catsby's romantic obsession cost him all nine of his lives?
The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America! by ISBN: 9781683310457Publication Date: 2016-06-28Summer 2018- Two years into President Donald J. Trump's first term in office, America has never been greater. The Even Greater Wall along the Mexican border is under construction, paid for by Mexico. Americans have more money in their pockets thanks to lower taxes and the president's creative money-raising strategies. (Who else would have thought to pay for FEMA's budget by suing the Catholic Church over property damage caused by acts of God?) And while Trump's detractors may call him a tyrant, the American people love bullies when the victim is Congress- every time they impeach the president, his approval rating skyrockets. Ever conscious of his hugely important historical legacy, The Donald plucks disgraced tabloid reporter Jimmie Bernwood--the man responsible for publishing the infamous Ted Cruz sex tape-from the depths of anonymity to become his official biographer, giving him enviable access to the gold-plated White House and all of its secrets. When Trump's previous biographer turns up dead, Bernwood must do some real investigative reporting, get to the bottom of a long series of murders...and, if it's absolutely unavoidable, save the country. The Day of the Donald is a hilariously hair-raising look at the (possible) future of America.
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey by ISBN: 9780306821998Publication Date: 2012-07-31Young, arrogant tycoon Earl Grey seduces the naïve coed Anna Steal with his overpowering good looks and staggering amounts of money, but will she be able to get past his fifty shames, including shopping at Walmart on Saturdays, bondage with handcuffs, and his love of BDSM (Bards, Dragons, Sorcery, and Magick)? Or will his dark secrets and constant smirking drive her over the edge?
Hope Never Dies by ISBN: 9781683690399Publication Date: 2018-07-10Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favourite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted-the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they uncover the sinister forces advancing America's opioid epidemic. Part noir thriller and part bromance novel, Hope Never Diesis essentially the first published work of Obama/Biden fanfiction-and a cathartic read for anyone distressed by the current state of affairs.
Hope Rides Again by ISBN: 9781683691228Publication Date: 2019-07-09Following a successful but exhausting book tour, Joe Biden is looking forward to returning home. However, before he does, he's got one last stop to make- Chicago, where the Obama Foundation is holding its first annual global economics forum. Barack Obama has invited Joe to meet a wealthy left-leaning philanthropist, whose deep pockets Joe will need if he decides to run for president. Joe isn't even sure if wants to run...but he's not going to pass up a rare chance to reconnect with his one-time governing mate. Joe and Obama barely have time to catch up before another mystery lands in their laps- Obama's prized Blackberry is stolen. When the suspect turns up comatose from a gunshot wound, local police are content with writing it off as just another gangland shooting. But Joe and Obama smell a rat. In a race to find the shooter, Joe and Obama butt heads with their former compadre, Mayor Rahm Emanuel; follow a trail of clues through Chicago's South Side; go undercover inside a Prohibition-era speakeasy; and scale the Tribune Tower in a Die Hard-worthy final set-piece. Robert Frost said "the woods are dreary, dark, and deep." So are the waters of Lake Michigan...and if Joe and Obama aren't careful, that's where they could wind up spending their retirement.
Secret Santa: A Horror for the Holidays Novel by ISBN: 9781683692058Publication Date: 2020-11-10From the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies,The Office meets The Shining in this horror-comedy about a holiday gift exchange gone wrong, set at a publishing house in the 80s. After half a decade editing some of the biggest names in horror, Lussi Meyer joins prestigious Blackwood-Patterson to kickstart their new horror imprint. Her new co-workers seem less than thrilled. Ever since the illustrious Xavier Blackwood died and his party-boy son took over, things have been changing around the office. When Lussi receives a creepy gnome doll as part of the company's annual holiday gift exchange, it verifies what she's long suspected- her co-workers think she's a joke. No one there takes her seriously, even if she's the one whose books are keeping the company afloat. What happens after the doll's arrival is no joke. With no explanation, Lussi's co-workers begin to drop like flies. A heart attack here; a food poisoning there. One of her authors and closest friends, the fabulous but underrated Fabien Nightingale, sees the tell-tale signs of supernatural forces at play, stemming from the gnome sitting quietly on Lussi's shelf. The only question is...does Lussi want to stop it from working its magic?
Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Medical Reports on Hollywood's Greatest Action Heroes by ISBN: 9781608879786Publication Date: 2017-11-07Discover how some of the silver screen's most iconic action heroes would really fare after being shot, stabbed, and dropped off buildings in this witty look at the real science behind Hollywood injuries. Hollywood action heroes shrug off bullet wounds like mosquito bites and jump through panes of glass as if their skin is made of asbestos. But how long would these gun-toting badasses last in the real world? Ain't Got Time to Bleed catalogs the injuries endured by some of the best-known characters in the action-movie genre and uses authentic medical research to assess their real-life chances of survival. Featuring full-color illustrations that reveal how these hard-boiled icons would really look after being put through the Hollywood wringer, Ain't Got Time to Bleed delivers twenty-nine hilariously grisly diagnoses that will change the way you watch action movies forever.
Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal by ISBN: 9781101906002Publication Date: 2016-06-28As seen in the Sony Pictures 2016 film Ghostbusters, the ultimate guide to identifying, understanding, and engaging with any paranormal activity that plagues you. Years before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates published the groundbreaking study of the paranormal, Ghosts from Our Past. Once lost to history, this criminally underappreciated book is now updated for the new century. According to Gilbert and Yates, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," and whether you're a believer or a skeptic, you'll find the information you're seeking right here in this extraordinary book, including: *The childhood experiences that inspired Erin and Abby's lifelong passion for the scientific study of the paranormal, *The history of ghosts and other supernatural entities, the science that explains their existence, and profiles of the groundbreaking paranormal researchers who have investigated them, *An illustrated guide to Class I through Class VII ghosts, *Helpful sidebars like "A Ghost by Any Other Name" and "Ectoplasm Cleanup Tips," *Updates including "The Ghostbusters' Arsenal" by Jillian Holtzmann and "Haunted History" by Patty Tolan, *A new Ghostbusting Resources appendix, featuring the "Paranormal Quickstart Guide", "Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz", "A Supernatural Stakeout Journal", "The Devil's Dictionary: Paraterminology You Need to Know." With this helpful--and hilarious--official Ghostbusters guide in hand, you'll be prepared for almost any spirit, spook, or spectre that comes your way. As for the rest, you know who to call.
How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters by ISBN: 9780553418132Publication Date: 2014-07-08In a post-apocalyptic world where Mother Nature is angry and monsters are hungry, danger waits at every turn. Now, in conjunction with Syfy Network, How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Natural Disasters will be the official guide to surviving all of the monsters and disasters-from sharks spinning in a tornado to ungodly creatures like the Piranhaconda-that Mother Nature can throw our way. Combining the survival guide format of bestsellers The SAS Survival Handbook and The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook with the laugh-out-loud fun of successful parodies like The Zombie Survival Guideand How to Survive a Robot Uprising,the book will feature 40-50 monsters and disasters (at least 30% of which will be unique to the book), vital information about each, and how to stay alive when they hit. You've been warned-now be prepared.
Justin Bieber: First Tweets 2 Forever: My Memoir by ISBN: 9781985849334Publication Date: 2011-02-01"Justin Bieber: First Tweets 2 Forever: My Memoir" is the 87.3% official biography of the teen pop superstar. First published as an ebook in 2011, this hilarious parody by New York Times bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer is now available in print for the first time!
The Telltale Hardon and Other Perversions by ISBN: 9780615792224Publication Date: 2016-03-19In The Telltale Hardon and Other Perversions, Edgar Allan Pole digs up seven of Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved stories and gives them a post-mortem makeover.In "The Telltale Hardon," a college girl seduces her elderly landlord. Things go awry when his heart gives out and the co-ed must dispose of his body, only to be haunted by his ghostly erection. In "The Purple Death," Pole re-imagines "The Masque of the Red Death" as a post-apocalyptic orgy inside Prince's fortified Paisley Park compound. And in "The Pit and the Pendulous Ballsack," a condemned man is tortured in a terrifyingly perverse manner.Pride and Prejudice and Zombies jump-started the literary mash-up genre; Edgar Allan Pole's twisted take on classic Poe short stories such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" will pound the final nail into the genre's coffin."The Telltale Hardon is a disgusting piece of trash so repulsive I had to read it twice just to be sure I was offended. And then again, in case I missed something the first two times." - Megan Hart
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Shepard, Sam
- Name(s)
- Sam Shepard
- Samuel Shepard Rogers III
- Steve Rogers
- Date of Birth
- November 5, 1943
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois
- Date of Death
- July 27, 2017
- Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky
- Residence(s)
- Various military bases in the United States and Guam
- Duarte, California
- New York City, New York, c.1963-c.1971
- England, 1971-1974
- San Francisco, California, 1974-c.1983
- Sante Fe, New Mexico, 1983-1986
- Charlottesville, Virginia, 1986-1995
- Stillwater, Minnesota, 1995-2004
- Greenwich Village, New York City, 2005-2010
- Midway, Kentucky, -2017
- Education
- One year of college in agricultural studies
- Duarte High School, 1961
- Life Events
- Partnered with Jessica Lange, c.1982-2009, two children
- Joined Bob Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Revue," mid-1970s
- Married O-lan Jones Dark, 1969; one son; divorced 1984
- Played drums and guitar in the rock band The Holy Modal Rounders, c.1968-1970
- Toured with the Bishop's Company Repertory Players, 1962-1963
- Awards and Recognitions
- Inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, 2020
- Nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Dash and Lilly, 1999
- Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for Dash and Lilly, 1999
- Tony Award nomination for Buried Child, 1996
- Inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame, 1994
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1986
- New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play for A Lie of the Mind, 1986
- Drama Desk Award for A Lie of the Mind, 1986
- Palme d'Or Award for Paris, Texas, 1984
- Nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (co-writer) for Paris, Texas, 1984
- Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Right Stuff, 1983
- Obie Award for Best Direction for Fool for Love, 1983
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child, 1979
- Grant from The Rockefeller Foundation
- Grant from the Guggenheim Foundation
- Obie Awards for Curse of the Starving Class and Buried Child, 1979
- Obie Award for The Tooth of the Crime, 1973
- Obie Award for Melodrama Play and Cowboys #2, 1968
- Obie Award for La Turista, 1967
- Obie Awards for plays Chicago, Icarus's Mother, and Red Cross, 1966
- Employment
- Playwright and Actor
- Busboy Village Gate nightclub, New York City, 1963-
- Stable hand, horse ranch in Chino, 1958-1960
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Playwright
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Cruising Paradise: Tales by ISBN: 9780679415640Publication Date: 1996-04-30From the intensely admired Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, musician, writer, ex-cowboy, a burst of pure storytelling: 40 swiftly told tales in the unmistakable voice of Sam Shepard. A boy travels to a desolate roadside inn to retrieve the charred mattress on which his drunken father burned to death. A mortified actor is stonewalled by a female bureaucrat in a Mexican border town -- until he identifies himself as Spencer Tracy. A man and a woman quarrel desperately in a South Dakota motel room and part company for reasons that remain mysterious to them both. Two kids raise a wolf pup ordered from a mail-order catalog, then set it free on the railroad tracks. A movie crew conducts its business beneath the baking Mexican sun, oblivious to the Indian voladores ("Flying Men") who sail above their heads in a magic ritual older than Cortez. Terse, lyric, alive, these tales range in key from the sad to the hilarious. Some are rounded stories, some are miniatures, some are dialogues at once cryptic and mesmerizing, some are excerpts from an actor's diary. Together they present their author's singular vision of ancestry and childhood, sexual passion and betrayal, family and fame, in a voice as spare as an Arizona mesa, as quintessentially American as a 40's jazz song. Cruising Paradise is a book that locates places where our culture is defined -- and at the same time brings us closer than we have yet been to a writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.
Day Out of Days: Stories by ISBN: 9780307277824Publication Date: 2011-02-08From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks. A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an endless loop of Shania Twain songs on the overhead sound system. A wandering actor returns to his hometown against his better instincts and runs into an old friend, who recounts their teenage days of stealing cars, scoring Benzedrine, and sleeping with whores in Tijuana. A Minnesota family travels south for a winter vacation but, caught up in the ordinary tyrannies of family life, remains oblivious to the beauty of the Yucatán Peninsula. A solitary horse rancher muses on Sitting Bull and Beckett amid the jumble of stuff in his big country kitchen--from rusted spurs and Lakota dream-catchers to yellowing pictures of hawks and galloping horses to "snapshots of different sons in different shirts doing different things like fishing, riding mules and tractors; leaning up against their different mothers at radical angles." Made up of short narratives, lyrics, and dialogues, Day out of Days sets conversation against tale, song against memory, in a cubistic counterpoint that finally links each piece together. The result is a stunning work of vision and clarity imbued with the vivid reverberations of myth--Shepard at his flinty-eyed, unwavering best. Originally published in hardcover: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Great Dream of Heaven: Stories by ISBN: 9780375704529Publication Date: 2003-11-11In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him "the great playwright of his generation" (The New York Times). A boy watches a "remedy man" tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the local Denny's, only to be divided by the attentions of their favorite waitress. Peering unblinkingly into the chasms that separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and strangers, these powerful tales bear the unmistakable signature of an American master. First published in 2002.
Hawk Moon: A Book of Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues by ISBN: 9780933826236Publication Date: 2001-07-01In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his virtuosic sense of the rhythms of the American landscape.
Motel Chronicles by ISBN: 9780872861435Publication Date: 2001-01-01Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. " . . . essential reading. A scrapbook of short stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs, Motel Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its author's entire canon. Whether Mr. Shepard is reminiscing about his parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West. Read in conjunction with the plays, Motel Chronicles also helps demystify the origins of Mr. Shepard's psychological obsessions and desolate frontier iconography."--Frank Rich, New York Times "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and half from the works of Sam Shepard."--Time "Sam Shepard is a shaman--a New World shaman. Sam is as American as peyote, magic mushrooms, Rock and Roll, and medicine bundles."--Jack Gelber Sam Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer and director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff. His other famous works include True West, A Lie of the Mind, and Curse of the Starving Class. Fool For Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard was also published by City Lights Publishers. First published in 1982.
The One Inside by ISBN: 9781101974384Publication Date: 2018-01-16This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him- in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer, his young face staring back at him in a mirror surrounded by light bulbs. In his dreams and in visions he sees his late father-sometimes in miniature, sometimes flying planes, sometimes at war. By turns, he sees the bygone America of his childhood- the farmland and the feedlots, the rail yards and the diners-and, most hauntingly, his father's young girlfriend, with whom he also became involved, setting into motion a tragedy that has stayed with him. His complex interiority is filtered through views of mountains and deserts as he drives across the country, propelled by jazz, Benzedrine, rock and roll, and a restlessness born out of exile. The rhythms of theater, the language of poetry, and a flinty humor combine in this stunning meditation on the nature of experience, at once celebratory, surreal, poignant, and unforgettable. First published in 2017.
The Rolling Thunder Logbook by ISBN: 9781849382519Publication Date: 2010In the Autumn of 1975 when America was 'festering with Bicentennial madness', the author and his Rolling Thunder Review - a rag-tag variety show that he envisioned as a travelling gypsy circus - toured 22 cities across the Northeast US. This title captures the camaraderie, isolation, head games and pill-popping mayhem of the tour. With a new preface by the author and a new afterword by T-Bone Burnett; photographs by Ken Regan. Previous edition: London: Sanctuary, 2005. First published in 1977.
Spy of the First Person by ISBN: 9780525563365Publication Date: 2018-11-20In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator's memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment-for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book's core, and his, is family-his relationships with those he loved, and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City's Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human-and an unbound celebration of family and life. First published in 2017.
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark by ISBN: 9780292735828Publication Date: 2013-10-15Sam Shepard was arguably America's finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including True West, Fool for Love, and Buried Child. Shepard also appeared in more than fifty films, beginning with Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in The Right Stuff. Despite the publicity his work and life attracted, however, Shepard remained a strongly private man who said many times that he would never write a memoir. But he did write intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark, who was Shepard's closest friend, surrogate brother (they were nearly the same age), and even artistic muse. Two Prospectors gathers nearly forty years of correspondence and transcribed conversations between Shepard and Dark. In these gripping, sometimes gut-wrenching letters, the men open themselves to each other with amazing honesty. Shepard's letters give us the deepest look we will ever get into his personal philosophy and creative process, while in Dark's letters we discover insights into Shepard's character that only an intimate friend could provide. The writers also reflect on the books and authors that stimulate their thinking, their relationships with women (including Shepard's anguished decision to leave his wife and son--Dark's stepdaughter and grandson--for actress Jessica Lange), personal struggles, and accumulating years. Illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters, Two Prospectors is a compelling portrait of a complex friendship that anchored both lives for decades, a friendship also poignantly captured in Treva Wurmfeld's film, Shepard & Dark.
- Angel City & Other Plays byISBN: 9780826402189Publication Date: 1983Includes: Angel City; Curse of the starving class; Killer's head; Action; The mad dog blues; Cowboy mouth; The rock garden; Cowboys 2; and Sam Shepard: 9 random years [7+2] / by Patti Smith. Reprint. Originally published: New York: Urizen Books, ©1976.
- Buried Child, & Seduced, & Suicide in Bâ™ byISBN: 9780571115310Publication Date: 1980Includes: Buried Child, Seduced, and Suicide in Bâ™
- Chicago and Other Plays byISBN: 9780826402226Publication Date: 1983Reprint of the 1981 ed. published: New York: Urizen Books. Originally published: Five plays. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. Includes: Chicago; Director's notes / Ralph Cook; Icarus's mother; Director's notes / Michael Smith; Fourteen hundred thousand; Director's notes / Sydney Schubert Walter; Red Cross; Director's / Jacques Levy; Melodrama play; and Author's notes.
Fifteen One-Act Plays by ISBN: 9780345802767Publication Date: 2012-08-14An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, with a new introduction by Conor McPherson. Filled with wry, dark humor, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Shepard's plays have earned him enormous acclaim. In these 15 one-acts, he displays his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. Includes: Ages of the moon; Evanescence, or Shakespeare in the alley; Short life of trouble; The unseen hand; Rock garden; Chicago; Icarus's mother; 4-H club; Fourteen hundred thousand; Red cross; Cowboys #2; Forensic & the navigators; Holy ghostly; Back bog beast bait; Killer's head.
Fool for Love and Other Plays by ISBN: 9780553345902Publication Date: 1984-11-01Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--A landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciousness, our fears and fantasies. Includes: Indhold: Fool for love; Angel city; Melodrama play; Cowboy mouth; Action; Suicide in Bb; Seduced; and Geography of a horse dreamer.
Four Two-Act Plays by ISBN: 9780893960209Publication Date: 2000-07-01Sam Shepard ranks as one of America's most celebrated dramatists. This collection of four two-act plays by the Pulitzer Prize winner includes: La Turista, The Tooth of the Crime, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, and Operation Sidewinder.- Sam Shepard: Mad Dog Blues and Other Plays byISBN: 9780878060269Publication Date: 1972-01-01Includes: The mad dog blues; Cowboy mouth; The rock garden; Cowboys #2.
Sam Shepard: Plays by ISBN: 9780413708304Publication Date: 1996Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print 14 of his legendary short and full-length plays from the 60s. Includes: The unseen hand; The rock garden; Chicago -Icarus's mother; 4-H Club; Fourteen hundred thousand; Red cross; Cowboys 2Ì•; Forensic & the navigators; The Holy Ghostly; Operation sidewinder; The mad dog blues; Back bog beast bait; and Killer's head.
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays by ISBN: 9780553346114Publication Date: 1984-05-01Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Shepard is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. "One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."--The New Yorker. "The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society."--New York Magazine. "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard."--Time. "Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage."--Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of 'Night, Mother. "One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape."--Newsweek. "His plays are stunning in their originality, defiant and inscrutable."--Esquire. "Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright."--The New Republic. Includes: True West; Buried child; Curse of the starving class; The tooth of crime; La turista; Tongues; Savage/Love.
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays by ISBN: 9780679767893Publication Date: 1996-04-30If you visit Sam Shepard country, expect to find bayous, deserts, and junkyards where dreams rust alongside abandoned '51 Chevys. Prepare to meet broken gunmen and refugees from distant galaxies, slavering swamp things and California Highway Patrolmen gone high-tech and blood simple. It is a country whose creator does nothing less than renew America's myths. And sometimes he invents them from scratch. In these fourteen darkly funny, furiously energetic early works for the theater, our most audacious living playwright sets genres and archetypes spinning, with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Includes: Rock garden; Chicago; Icaru's mother; 4-H club; Fourteen hundred thousand; Red cross; Forensic & the navigators; Holy ghostly; Operation sidewinder; Mad dog blues; Back Bog beast bait; Killer's head; Cowboys.
Individual Plays:
- Cowboys, 1964
- The Rock Garden, 1964
- Chicago, 1965
- Icarus's Mother, 1965
- 4-H Club, 1965
- Red Cross, 1966
- Fourteen Hundred Thousand, 1966
- La Turista, 1967
- Cowboy's #2, 1967
- Forensic & the Navigators, 1967
- The Unseen Hand, 1969
- Oh! Calcutta!, 1969
- The Holy Ghostly, 1970
- Operation Sidewinder, 1970
- Mad Dog Blues, 1971
- Back Bog Beast Bait, 1971
- Cowboy Mouth, 1971
- The Tooth of Crime, 1972
- Geography of a Horse Dreamer, 1974
- Killer's Head, 1975
- Action, 1975
- Angel City, 1976
- Suicide in B Flat, 1976
- Inacoma, 1977
- Curse of the Starving Class, 1978
- Buried Child, 1978
- Tongues, 1978
- Seduced: a Play in Two Acts, 1979
- True West, 1980
- Savage/Love, 1981
- Fool for Love, 1983
- A Lie of the Mind, 1985
- A Short Life of Trouble, 1987
- The War in Heaven, 1987
- Baby Boom, 1987
- States of Shock, 1991
- Simpatico, 1993
- Tooth of Crime (Second Dance), 1996
- Eyes for Consuela, 1998
- The Late Henry Moss, 2000
- The God of Hell, 2004
- Kicking a Dead Horse, 2007
- Ages of the Moon, 2009
- Blackthorn, 2011
- Heartless, 2012
- A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), 2014
Film:
- Me and My Brother (co-writer), 1969
- Zabriskie Point (co-writer), 1970
- Oh! Calcutta! (sketch contributions), 1972
- Renaldo and Clara (co-writer), 1978
- Savage/Love (writer, short film), 1981
- Tongues (writer, short film), 1982
- Paris, Texas (co-writer), 1984
- Fool of Love (writer, also actor), 1985
- Far North (writer and director), 1988
- Silent Tongue (writer and director), 1994
- Curse of the Starving Class (writer), 1994
- Simpatico (writer), 1999
- Don't Come Knocking (co-writer), 2005
- Fool for Love (writer, short film), 2007
Television:
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (writer, episode: "Geography of a Horse Dreamer"), 1974
- American Playhouse (writer, episode: "True West"), 1984
- True West (writer, adaptation of True West), 2002
- See You in My Dreams (writer, adaptation from Cursing Paradise and Motel Chronicles), 2004
Film:
- Brand X, role: [?], 1970
- Renaldo and Clara, role: Rodeo, 1978
- Days of Heaven, role: The Farmer, 1978
- Resurrection, role: Cal Carpenter, 1980
- Raggedy Man, role: Bailey, 1981
- Frances, role: Harry York, 1982
- The Right Stuff, role: Chuck Yeager, 1983
- County, role: Gilbert "Gil" Ivy, 1984
- Fool for Love, role: Eddie (also writer), 1985
- Crimes of the Heart, role: Doc Porter, 1986
- Baby Boom, role: Dr. Jeff Cooper, 1987
- Steel Magnolias, role: Spud Jones, 1989
- Bright Angel, role: Jack, 1990
- Voyager, role: Walter Faber, narrator, 1991
- Defenseless, role: Detective Beutel, 1991
- Thunderheart, role: Frank Coutelle, 1992
- The Pelican Brief, role: Thomas Callahan, 1993
- Safe Passage, role: Patrick Singer, 1994
- The Good Old Boys, role: Snort Yarnell, 1995
- The Only Thrill, role: Reece McHenry, 1997
- Curtain Call, role: Will Dodge, 1998
- Snow Falling on Cedars, role: Arthur Chambers, 1999
- Hamlet, role: Ghost, 2000
- All the Pretty Horses, role: J.C. Franklin, 2000
- The Pledge, role: Eric Pallack, 2001
- Swordfish, role: James Reisman, 2001
- Black Hawk Down, role: William F. Garrison, 2001
- Leo, role: Vic, 2002
- Blind Horizon, role: Sheriff Jack Kolb, 2003
- The Notebook, role: Frank Calhoun, 2004
- Don't Come Knocking, role: Howard Spence (also co-writer), 2005
- Stealth, role: George Cummings, 2005
- Bandidas, role: Bill Buck, 2006
- Walker Payne, role: Syrus, 2006
- The Return, role: Ed Mills, 2006
- Charlotte's Web, role: narrator, 2006
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, role: Frank James, 2007
- The Accidental Husband, role: Wilder Lloyd, 2008
- Felon, role: Gordon Camrose, 2008
- Brothers, role: Hank Cahill, 2009
- Fair Game, role: Sam Plame, 2010
- Inhale, role: James Harrison, 2010
- Blackthorn, role: Butch Cassidy, 2011
- Shepard & Dark, role: himself (documentary), 2012
- Darling Companion, role: Sheriff Morris, 2012
- Safe House, role: Harlan Whitford, 2012
- Killing Them Softly, role: Dillon, 2012
- Mud, role: Tom Blankenship, 2012
- Savannah, role: Mr. Stubbs, 2013
- August: Osage County, role: Beverly Weston, 2013
- Out of the Furnace, role: Gerald "Red" Baze, 2013
- Cold in July, role: Ben Russell, 2014
- Ithaca, role: Willie Grogan, 2015
- Midnight Special, role: Calvin Meyer, 2016
- In Dubious Battle, role: Mr. Anderson, 2016
- Never Here, role: Paul Stark, 2017
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, role: himself (documentary), 2019
Television:
- The Good Old Boys, television film, role: Snort Yarnell, 1995
- Lily Dale, television film, role: Pete Davenport, 1996
- Streets of Laredo, three episodes, role: Pea Eye Parker, 1999
- Purgatory, television film, role: Sheriff Forrest, Wild Bill Hickok, 1999
- Dash and Lilly, television film, role: Dashiell Hammett, 1999
- One Kill, television film, role: Major Nelson Gray, 2000
- Great Performances, one episode ("Kurosawa"), role: narrator, 2000
- After the Harvest, television film, role: Caleb Gare, 2001
- Shot in the Heart, television film, role: Frank Gilmore Sr., 2001
- Ruffian, television film, role: Frank Whiteley, 2007
- Tough Trade, pilot episode, role: [?], 2010
- Klondike, three episodes, role: Father Judge, 2014
- Bloodline, seven episodes, role: Robert Rayburn, 2015-2017
"A Kind of Alaska": Women in the Plays of O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard by ISBN: 9780809318773Publication Date: 1993-11-29In an effort to define what constitutes a feminist reading of literary works, Ann C. Hall offers an analytic technique that is both a feminist and a psychoanalytic approach, applying this technique to her study of women characters in the modern dramatic texts of Eugene O'Neill, Harold Pinter, and Sam Shepard. This is the first study to treat these three writers in tandem, and while Hall uses the work of Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, and other psychoanalytic feminist critics in her close readings of specific dramatic texts, she also brings in commentaries by critics, directors, performers, and historians. Her technique thereby provides us with a new and significant method for addressing female characters as written by male playwrights, a task that she argues is not only a valid and necessary part of feminist dramatic criticism but a part of theatrical production as well. From Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska, Hall extracts a metaphor for the patriarchal oppression of women, contextualizing such oppression through an examination of O'Neill's madonnas, Pinter's whores, and Shepard's female saviors as they are represented in O'Neill's Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten; Pinter's Homecoming, No Man's Land, Betrayal, and A Kind of Alaska; and Shepard's Buried Child, True West, and A Lie of the Mind. Since the works of O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard continue to be performed to popular acclaim, Hall hopes that a better understanding of the female characters in these plays will influence the performances themselves.
American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard by ISBN: 9780933826137Publication Date: 1981-06-01The standard critical work on the author features two dozen essays and miscellaneous pieces by leading theatre critics, directors, and actors on the plays and productions of Shepard, from the beginning of his career. A special section by the author on his own work is also included.
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard by ISBN: 9780521777667Publication Date: 2002-05-27Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed "on" and "off" Broadway as well as in all the major regional American theaters. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and a scholarly audience. This companion explores the various aspects of Shepard's career, providing fascinating first-hand accounts and substantial critical chapters on the plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work.
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama, 1900-1940 by ISBN: 9780521242271Publication Date: 1982-07-29This is the first of two volumes in which Christopher Bigsby offers extended critical readings of the work of the leading dramatists and theatre groups in twentieth-century America. In this century drama has emerged as one of the most exciting expressions of American creativity, and during the 1930s became a primary means of addressing the cultural, political and economic changes of the period. But it has received surprisingly little attention. This is a chronological and selective study related to American culture as a whole and providing a picture of a vigorous theatre in the process of discovering its own special strengths. Volume 1 begins with the companies who first broke away from the stifling world of melodrama and naturalism - the Provincetown and Washington Square Players. Christopher Bigsby describes the emergence of important individuals and companies throughout the period to 1940, giving extended critical accounts of some playwrights, particularly Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets. Thornton Wilder and Lillian Hellman, and distinguishing between the aims and policies of the various companies, including the Theatre Guild and the Group Theatre. The development of left-wing theatre from 1914 is separately discussed, followed by a chapter on the brief flowering of the Federal Theatre which popularised theatre for a mass audience via its successful Living Newspaper productions. A chapter on black drama includes works by and about black Americans during this period. Some of the important figures and productions are illustrated, and there are useful appendices listing performances by major theatre companies.- Inner Landscapes: The Theater of Sam Shepard byISBN: 9780826204523Publication Date: 1984"Sam Shepard has so often been called the preeminent playwright of his generation that the statement goes almost unchallenged today. Some have gone further in their praise: Partisan Review, for example, has described him as one of the two greatest dramatists of the American theater, the other being Eugene O'Neill. But despite that praise, and despite the fact that his plays have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, there have been until now no extended studies of his work. Although primarily giving literary and dramatic analysis, Mottram also constructs a biographical context for the plays that is a blend of straightforward fact and Shepard's imaginative recreations of significant events in his own life. Shepard once wrote, "I'm taking notes in as much detail as possible on an event that's happening somewhere inside me"; that "event," fueled by what Shepard has called a library of stored images and experiences, constitutes an inner landscape that is expressed throughout the plays as well as in his collections of prose and poetry. This study traces some of the prominent features of that inner landscape, showing that Sam Shepard, like Walt Whitman before him, celebrates himself while simultaneously projecting a vision of America that is often profoundly disturbing."--Jacket.
Sam Shepard by ISBN: 9781619029842Publication Date: 2017-04-01The first comprehensive biography of Sam Shepard in 30 years draws on newly available letters and journals, as well as dozens of interviews, to move past the image, and beyond the press clippings to lay bare the man known as the most influential and critically acclaimed playwright of his generation- Sam Shepard byISBN: 9780312698393Publication Date: 1986-01-01"This is an authentic portrait of this complex star and virtual Renaissance man. Dumano explore's Shepard's personal life, but in the larger context of its impact on his work. From his early involvement in experimental theater to his current status as America's most prolific and important new playwright, this is an in-depth study of Shepard's career and a perceptive and intelligent appraisal of his art."--Jacket.
- Sam Shepard byISBN: 9780826405494Publication Date: 1992-12-01Elusive and reclusive, he is combination playwright, rock star, and movie idol. Sam Shepard has moved - and confounded - millions with some of the most dynamic theater America has seen since the heyday of O'Neill, Odets, and Arthur Miller. This biographical-critical book is about Sam Shepard's plays. Although it does not claim a literal connection between the work and the life, it does suggest that Shepard's plays remain the truest source for discovery of his humanistic views and the important roles his family and friends have played in his life. Following an introduction and short biography of the early days, both in Duarte, California, and in the heady atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early sixties, the book goes on to a consideration of Shepard's plays, succinctly drawing on biographical data to provide a comprehensive and transitional approach to his achievement. Recurring themes and images are shown to reverberate through the plays, signifying a stream of consciousness that reveals more than it seemingly tells. Among the plays discussed are La Turista, Mad Dog Blues, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and his latest work States of Shock. Through Martin Tucker's close reading of Shepard's plays we come to see the curve of the playwright's career, from the more complex to the more concrete; from the experimental to the conventional, but more finely shaded. Shepard has called himself the "ultimate foe of terminal stasis": this book helps to explain why.
Sam Shepard's Metaphorical Stages by ISBN: 9780313253737Publication Date: 1987-01-13A wonderfully helpful survey of the drama of Sam Shepard. It is bound to find many eager readers among those who are either intrigued or baffled--or both--by the plays of this still-young playwright whom many think contemporary America's finest. Choice America's most highly acclaimed contemporary playwright continues to puzzle critics, even as his reputation grows and his imagination seeks new creative channels. Finding the dramatist difficult to classify, critics and scholars continue to search for the central direction of Shepard's creative development. Lynda Hart's study, which focuses on ten representative plays, is the first book to examine Shepard's growth and development as a dramatist within and against the historical tradition. Offering a unified critical perspective, the author considers the plays from both a literary standpoint and as texts for performance. Resources include a bibliography that offers the most complete listing of relevant critical writings.- Sam Shepard: A Casebook byISBN: 9780824044480Publication Date: 1988Garland reference library of the humanities, v.861; Garland reference library of the humanities, Casebooks on modern dramatists, v.2.
Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Centre by ISBN: 9789057021510Publication Date: 1998-08-01Contemporary Theatre Review, volume 8, part 3. These issues consist of the edited Proceedings of the Shepard conference, organized by the Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association and the Free University of Brussels (VUB), which took place in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993. It will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates, professors, critics, theater practitioners, writers and those with a keen interest in the fields of literature, theater studies and cultural studies.
Sam Shepard and the American Theatre by ISBN: 9780275945848Publication Date: 1997-08-26No dramatist in the recent history of the American theatre has gained more celebrity than Sam Shepard. Exploring a career that includes fifty stage and screen plays, four books of nondramatic writings, and over a dozen appearances in feature films, this work traces Shepard's rise from an Off-Off-Broadway renegade to a Hollywood leading man, and explores his evolution from counterculture to cultural icon. The study situates Shepard's career within the shifting production modes and economic contexts of the American entertainment industry, and views his popularity against the identity politics of postwar American culture. Through an analysis of his life, plays and screen roles, this book investigates how Shepard's dramatic voice and film persona address issues of American consensus and community. The study argues that Shepard's popularity--in an era of cultural diversification and dissent--owes much to nationalism and nostalgia and begs important questions concerning American myths, media representations, and the construction of an American audience.
The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis by ISBN: 9780521587914Publication Date: 1998-01-13This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard's career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s through the 1994 play Simpatico. Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work has appeared. Engaging, informative, and insightful, The Theatre of Sam Shepard is the definitive source on the works of this innovative and original writer.
Understanding Sam Shepard by ISBN: 9781611171068Publication Date: 2012-10-30Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America's most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently focused his work on the ever-changing American cultural landscape. James A. Crank's comprehensive study of Shepard offers scholars and students of the dramatist a means of understanding Shephard's frequent experimentation with language, setting, characters, and theme. Beginning with a brief biography of Shepard, Crank shows how experiences in Shepard's life eventually resonate in his work by exploring the major themes, unique style, and history of Shepard's productions. Focusing first on Shepard's early plays, which showcase highly experimental, frenetic explorations of fractured worlds, Crank discusses how the techniques from these works evolve and translate into the major works in his "family trilogy": Curse of the Starving Class, the Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child, and True West. Shepard often uses elements from his past;his relationship with his father, his struggle for control within the family, and the breakdown of the suburban American dream as major starting points in his plays. Shepard is a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, eleven Obie Awards, and a Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Augmented with an extensive bibliography, Understanding Sam Shepard is an ideal point of entrance into complex and compelling dramas of this acclaimed playwright.
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- Sam Shepard, obituary at the New York TimesArticle by Ben Brantley, July 31, 2017
Sherburne, James
- Name(s)
- James Sherburne
- James R. Sherburne
- James Robert Sherburne
- Date of Birth
- May 22, 1925
- East Lansing, Michigan
- Date of Death
- May 7, 2011
- Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky
- Residence(s)
- East Lansing, Michigan
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. 1941-
- Chicago, Illinois
- Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky
- Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky, 1988-2011
- Education
- A.B. in English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1947
- Attended Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
- Life Events
- Served in the United States Navy, Pacific Theater, World War II, 1943-1946
- Married Nancy Garner, 1952; four children
- Awards and Recognitions
- Friends of Literature Award for Hacey Miller, 1971
- Employment
- Speaker and Educator, Artists in Education program, Kentucky
- Teacher, Midway College
- Advertising, Chicago, Illinois
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Teacher
- Writer
- Educator
- Speaker
- Death's Clenched Fist: A Paddy Moretti Mystery byISBN: 9780395318355Publication Date: 1982-04-01Mystery fiction; 194 pages.
- Death's Pale Horse: A Novel of Murder in Saratoga in the 1800s byISBN: 9780395290873Publication Date: 1980-03-01Mystery fiction; 194 pages. When sportswriter Paddy Moretti came to Saratoga Springs to report the historic match race between The Mogul and Tenstrike, he thought his only problem was keeping and unsympathetic editor at bay. But he soon discovered that was one of his lesser worries. Worry number one was the naked body someone served up in the dumbwaiter at the fashionable United States Hotel.
- Death's Gray Angel: A Paddy Moretti Mystery byISBN: 9780395312650Publication Date: 1981-11-01Mystery fiction; 206 pages.
- Death's White City: A Paddy Moretti Mystery byISBN: 9780449131336Publication Date: 1987-12-12Mystery fiction; 244 pages. Turn-of-the-century sports reporter Paddy Moretti, in Chicago to cover the American Derby, meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman, whose disappearance leads him to a bizarre murder case.
- Death's Bright Arrow: A Paddy Moretti Mystery byISBN: 9780449134344Publication Date: 1989-06-27Mystery fiction; 199 pages.
- The Way to Fort Pillow byISBN: 9780395135259Publication Date: 1972-01-01Historical fiction; 260 pages. After Berea College is closed by a pro-slavery mob, Hacey Miller decides to join the Union forces and leads his men into the battle of Fort Pillow.
Hacey Miller by ISBN: 9780395121061Publication Date: 1971-01-01Historical fiction; 306 pages. "An historical novel set in Bluegrass Kentucky and Boston just before the Civil War. Hacey Miller, son of a conservative shopkeeper, falls under the influence of Cassius M. Clay, becomes an emancipationist and returns to Kentucky to help establish Berea College and work for the Underground Railroad."--Amazon- Stand Like Men byISBN: 9780395171172Publication Date: 1973-01-01Fiction; 268 pages. The Hords become involved in a coal war when they sell the mineral rights to their land and begin working as miners.
- Poor Boy and a Long Way from Home byISBN: 9780395354001Publication Date: 1984-07-01Historical fiction; 361 pages. Starting in 1914, this novel is about con men, Wobblies, union-busters, movie starlets, Chinese Tong warfare and much more.
- Rivers Run Together byISBN: 9780395194256Publication Date: 1974-01-01Historical fiction; 208 pages.
- Kentucky Family Roots byPublication Date: 1985Kentucky Genealogy; 335 pages. "Squire's mini-history of Kentucky" (p. 25-124) / compiled from the collection of the late Kentucky historian "Squire" J. Winston Coleman ; edited by Nadine Kerfoot. Prepared under supervision of Kentucky author and historian James Sherburne; editor and publisher, Jack Wert Oldham. Includes index.
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Shulman, Lenny
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- Name(s)
- Lenny Shulman
- Date of Birth
- Binghamton, New York
- Residence(s)
- New York City, New York
- Arizona
- Los Angeles, California
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Education
- B.S. in Journalism, Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
- Life Events
- Awards and Recognitions
- Emmy Award for an NFL pre-game show on FOX Sports
- Employment
- Features Editor and Writer, BloodHorse Magazine
- Writer and Producer, Kids Incorporated
- NFL pre-game show, FOX Sports
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Author
- Humorist
- Editor
- TV and film writer
- Producer
Justify: 111 Days to Triple Crown Glory by ISBN: 9781629377018Publication Date: 2019-04-30With a trademark powerful stride amid a blaze of red and yellow silks, Justify emphatically crossed the finish line at the 2018 Belmont Stakes and became just the 13th winner of horse racing's elusive Triple Crown. One of the most charismatic and talented runners in the history of the sport, Justify was also one of its most unlikely champions; the late-blooming chestnut colt made his competitive debut only 111 days prior to that legendary victory. In Justify: 111 Days to Triple Crown Glory , veteran scribe Lenny Shulman ( BloodHorse magazine) provides an insider account of this Thoroughbred's rise to greatness. Through extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, readers will discover the fascinatingly disparate cast of characters who were crucial to Justify's success, including trainer Bob Baffert, whose innate ability to identify equine talent also produced American Pharoah; Mike Smith, the 52-year-old jockey asserting himself in the miraculous third act of his career; and breeders John and Tanya Gunther, who believed in Justify's ability despite the developmental imperfections that drove buyers away. Packed with riveting action, keen insight, and behind-the-scenes perspectives on quieter figures like silent investors, international stakeholders, and unheralded training staff, Justify is an illuminating look at the modern Thoroughbred industry and an essential story for the ages.
Long Way from Home by ISBN: 9780615905068Publication Date: 2014-01-25"Long Way From Home" is the first novel from Emmy Award-winning writer Lenny Shulman.Follow the exploits of wise-cracking New York author Dan Henry as he lurches forward from unemployed writer to host of a TV sports talk show--with help and hindrance from his brilliant, sex-addicted attorney, and from a murky, mysterious source who feeds him inside information.Dan hits his stride with the job and a beautiful girlfriend, actually achieving status and success. To the surprise of no one, none of it lasts.When the TV deal and his life blow up, Dan strikes off on his own again 1,000 miles away. Despite losing the job that took him halfway across the country, Dan finds his voice. Throwing himself into the story of a lifetime, Dan uses every tool in his arsenal to expose a plot that threatens the life of the most famous racehorse in America as it competes in the Kentucky Derby. In doing so, he brings some familiar villains to justice.Against all odds, Dan becomes a hero."Long Way From Home" weaves relentless humor through waves of friendship, betrayal, and redemption. It is comedy of a most serious nature.
Ride of Their Lives: The Triumphs and Turmoil of Today's Top Jockeys by ISBN: 9781581500752Publication Date: 2002-05-01Pat Day, Jerry Bailey, Corey Nakatani, and other jockeys reveal how they deal with the pressure of riding horses at top speeds day in and day out, the reality of injury, and the issue of weight.
- "Q&A with Lenny Shulman, Author of New Book on Triple Crown Winner Justify"Interview by Dan Tordjman in America's Best Racing; April 15, 2019