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Today is my 5 year #Litsyversary, and I just finished this little book in Yosemite, on the porch of the hotel my partner and I are staying at. ? What a strange and compelling fever dream of a book, capturing Shepard's last days in a kind of "autofiction." Makes me a little curious to read some of Shepard's other work! But barely a pick for me, 3/5 stars, just didn't *love* it.

Over these 5 years, I've always come back to Litsy. Love it here. ❤️

Unexpected #7days7covers Day 3

#samshepard #citylights #judgeabook #elvis

Not the right title (they were selling a play script so it had been published) but just had to post what I went to see tonight!

Waiting room reading 📖💚loving this so far 👌🏽

Spy of the First Person by Sam Shepard is the author's last work, which he drafted and edited up to the day he passed. It is about fragmented but focused on memory, aging, illness, and family ... Now I really need to go back and read his other work.

Read this for the first time to teach in my college drama class. Students were very engaged! Creepy, dysfunctional family.

I loved its simplicity, its unpretentious poetic language.
"Sometimes something sweeps across me. I'm not sure what it is. Sometimes swooping like the wind. Sometimes toenails or just the toes in the surf. Sometimes color. I remember sometimes you would start whole stories. Sometimes paragraphs. Sometimes sentences with the word "sometimes".

The first of his books that I owned. It's long since fallen apart. #SamShepard