Stories We Love: “An Unfair Question,” by Sam Shepard
by RT Both
RT Both examines how Sam Shepard probes the limits of social unease in times of division.
RT Both’s short stories have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Great Lakes Review, and Brooklyn Review. Her creative non-fiction and articles have appeared in Weep and Chicago Magazine. Her Milwaukee Magazine article “The Banishment of John McAdams” was nominated for a Press Club award in the profiles category. Her book reviews have appeared in Colorado Review, and Rain Taxi. She is currently at work on a novel called The Comedians.
RT Both examines how Sam Shepard probes the limits of social unease in times of division.
“The Devil in the Marshalsea is anything but a quaint period piece, a costume drama in prose. There are a few well-stuffed, beribboned bodices, but this novel is a grim tale of an eighteenth-century crime (owing money) and punishment (prison for same).”
