Lawrence Shainberg
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Lawrence Shainberg is an American
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. Lawrence Shainberg was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been published several times. His books include: Ambivalent Zen, a memoir of spiritual ambition, One on One; Brain Surgeon: An Intimate View of the World; Memories of Amnesia; and CRUST. Lawrence Shainberg has had numerous essays published in The New York Times, Harper's and the Village Voice. He also wrote a Pushcart Prize-winning monograph on Samuel Beckett, published in The Paris Review . Shainberg has also had an interview with Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...

; he documented this interview and his thoughts of it in Exorcising Beckett. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Shainberg resides in New York City.

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