Patti Smith published a beautifully poetic remembrance of her late friend, writing collaborator, and onetime lover Sam Shepard in the New Yorker today. Shepard, the prolific, Pulitzer-winning playwright and acclaimed actor, died Thursday (July 27) from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was 73.
In her essay, titled “My Buddy,” Smith recalls Shepard’s keen literary mind,…