Tag Archives: playwright
Nomadus Americanus
After this week’s news about the death of Sam Shepard and my memorial post yesterday, I’ve been reading a lot about the man. I came across a quote from Shepard saying that he only felt at home in his pickup truck — I remember him saying something similar in the Shepard & Dark documentary, and [...]
Posted in Counter Culture
Tagged American Nomads, pickup truck, playwright, rootless, Sam Shepard, Shepard & Dark, Southwest
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Bye Bye, Berger
Art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger died on Monday. Berger celebrated his 90th birthday last year and a BBC special and a very good documentary film marked the occasion. Here’s some of my Burnaway review for The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger. It’s followed by a YouTube playlist I made [...]
Posted in Art, Books
Tagged 90 years old, art critic, artist, bbc, BBC 4, January 2, John Berger, playwright, poet
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