[DOC] [TLE] Summary/Reviews: Cruising paradise : - Buffalo & Erie County ... [PAR] Playwright Shepard reads a series of short selections from his book of the same 
title. ... Nearly all the characters are quirky, and, particularly in the stories that rely 
so heavily ... Recommended for both serious and popular collections. ... True 
West (1980) is concerned with the tension between individuals, ... Published: (
1996). [DOC] [TLE] Summary/Reviews: Cruising paradise : - Buffalo & Erie County ... [PAR] From the intensely admired Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, musician, ... 
to these highly charged vignettes and short stories: his fascination with "road" 
culture, ... like all the stories in this collection, it has a hard-luck, down-in-the-
mouth feel that is ... True West (1980) is concerned with the tension between 
individuals,... [DOC] [TLE] Cruising Paradise by Sam Shepard  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] Bert said: Sam Shepard's short stories and fragments are all American and all ... 
Published June 24th 1997 by Vintage (first published 1996) ... This is a wonderful 
collection of hard-edged stories of the modern west by the playwright/actor .... 
and instead concerned more with what True West already shows Shepard to be... [DOC] [TLE] Cruising Paradise: Tales by Sam Shepard  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] May 31, 1998 ... Cruising Paradise contains 40 short stories by the renowned playwright and actor 
Sam Shepard. Exploring themes of solitude and loss,... [DOC] [TLE] Sam Shepard : The Wittliff Collections : Texas State University [PAR] Widely considered one of America's greatest living playwrights, Sam ... Short 
Stories, Films, Literary Criticism, Notebooks, Correspondence, .... and in 1992 a 
revised version of True West was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Drama. ... 
Shepard's collection of stories, Cruising Paradise, was published by Knopf in 
1996. [DOC] [TLE] CRUISING PARADISE: TALES - Rare Fine Copy of The First ... [PAR] Published in 1996. The author's debut collection of short stories. ... Sam Shepard 
is not just another short story writer. He is an ... century theater: "Buried Child", "
Curse of The Starving Class", "True West", "Fool For Love", and "A Lie of The 
Mind". [DOC] [TLE] Sam Shepard - Wikipedia [PAR] Samuel Shepard Rogers III (born November 5, 1943), known professionally as 
Sam Shepard, is an American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director
, whose body of work spans over half a century. He is the author of forty-four 
plays as well as several books of short stories, .... Curse of the Starving Class (
1978) and True West (1980), the other two plays... [DOC] [TLE] Cruising Paradise - Sam Shepard - Google Books [PAR] The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam 
Shepard now ... Stories, vignettes, short dialogues and memoir pieces from 
playwright and actor Sam Shepard. ... Snippet view - 1996 ... Other plays by 
Shephard include Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A 
Lie of the Mind. [DOC] [TLE] Cruising paradise: tales - Sam Shepard - Google Books [PAR] From the intensely admired Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, musician, ... 
Knopf, 1996 - Fiction - 239 pages ... Stories, vignettes, short dialogues and 
memoir pieces from playwright and actor Sam Shepard. ... Other plays by 
Shephard include Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A 
Lie of the Mind. [DOC] [TLE] A Guide to the Sam Shepard Papers, 1972-1999 (Bulk: 1980-1999) [PAR] Widely considered one of America's greatest living playwrights, Sam ... father 
had a real short fuse, and that he was often the target of his father's anger. ... 
Child and producing his best-known plays, among them, True West in 1980. ... 
Shepard's collection of stories, Cruising Paradise, was published

Question: "Cruising Paradise" is a 1996 collection of short stories by this "True West" playwright
Answer: Sam Shepard