PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewThe One Inside is less a stand-alone performance than Shepard’s short story collections, but it takes its place as a satisfying chapter in the autobiographical stream of consciousness that flows through his plays ... Not many Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights are also heartthrobs, but one of the things that have made Shepard so attractive on the screen is our sense of his reluctance to be there. He has a natural antipathy for the movie star life. Here the narrator wrestles with phony parts, dons costumes in an agony, as if they were medieval torture instruments. He seeks authenticity, even as he creates art and artifice as a métier.
Luc Sante
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewIf Sante’s book sometimes overwhelms with encyclopedic density, its great virtue is to send the reader down investigative paths of his own.
