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• True West

  Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017

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  The script of TRUE WEST, for your reading pleasure.

• The Black Light

  Calexico (Musical group)

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  Calexico’s bluesy, Latin-inflected desert noir makes the perfect soundtrack for that lonely road trip across the Mojave, in search of lost hope.

• Black Listed

  Case, Neko

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  “I’m a dying breed who still believes – haunted by American Dreams.” Case’s plaintive melodies harmonize well with Shepard’s plays.

• Townie

  a Memoir

  Dubus, Andre, III, 1959-

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  Renowned author Dubus recounts his hardscrabble youth growing up without a father on the bad side of town.

• Whiskey

  Holbert, Bruce

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  Battling brothers Andre and Wendell trade barbed words and blows, a modern Cain and Abel in Electric City, WA.

• Hud

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  Father clashes with ne’er-do-well son Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), in this epic tale of contemporary cattle country.

• Lonely Are the Brave

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  Lee’s favorite film – er, movie - is a masterful anti-romantic western starring Kirk Douglas, adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Edward Abbey’s 1956 novel The Brave Cowboy.

• Nebraska

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  In this offbeat film, a father drags his son on a doomed road trip to claim a sweepstakes prize, only to stumble upon unexpected treasure.

• Once Upon a Time...

  the Western : a New Frontier in Art and Film

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  This beautiful coffee table book explores the iconography and significance of that quintessential American myth, the Western.

• Motel Chronicles

  Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017

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  This visceral, revealing collection of stories, poems and autobiographical sketches was published shortly after the première of TRUE WEST.

• The One Inside

  Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017

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  A brooding writer, a dead father, sex, death and mayhem as coyotes howl in the background: this elegiac novel is pure Shepard.

• The Fighter

  a Novel

  Smith, Michael F. (Michael Farris), 1970-

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  An aging cage-fighter puts it all on the line to save his family home. Grit-Lit at its finest and most haunting.

• The Toaster Project

  or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance From Scratch

  Thwaites, Thomas, 1980-

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  Inspired by TRUE WEST to do a little toaster rustling? While we don’t recommend it, Thwaites explains why it is probably better than trying to build one from scratch.

• Let Him Go

  a Novel

  Watson, Larry, 1947-

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  After losing her son in a horse-riding accident, Margaret Blackledge heads to Montana to rescue her grandson from a clan of menacing outlaw in-laws.

• Seattle Rep's TRUE WEST website

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  Two brothers from different walks of life – one a successful screenwriter, the other a restless drifter – clash while housesitting for their mother in a sweltering Los Angeles suburb. This outlandishly funny and unsettling Pulitzer Prize-nominated…Read moreRead more of this annotation