STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING by Samuel Beckett. 140 pages. Grove. $5. Some writers chronicle men on their way up; others tackle men on their way down. Samuel Beckett stalks after men on their way out ...

A standard compliment for a skillful actor is "he could recite the telephone book and make it fascinating." A more lavish compliment would be "he could even recite Samuel Beckett's' 'Texts for Nothing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A rare glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest writers will go up for sale in July when a manuscript for Samuel Beckett's first novel hits the auction block. Six ...

Samuel Beckett has written 23 shows including Embers (Playwright), Play/ The Lover (Playwright), Krapp's Last Tape/ The Zoo Story (Playwright), Happy Days (Playwright), Oh! Calcutta! (Material), Jack ...

Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1969. Here, Beckett scholar Michael Coffey reminds us of the ...

“On Beckett” is about nothing and everything. To describe it would do us all a disservice. The one-man thought experiment, conceived and performed by self-proclaimed Samuel Beckett non-scholar Bill ...

For years, American audiences watched raptly as Jerry Seinfeld and his television comedy troupe delivered half-hour shows “about nothing.” Of course that was always an oversimplification. The Seinfeld ...

On Jan. 18, 1937, Samuel Beckett wrote from Berlin to his friend Mary Manning Howe of Boston about his not-yet-published first novel, “Murphy,” whose opening line introduced an authorial voice unlike ...

Bill Irwin discusses "Waiting for Godot" -- and why he won't discuss "Endgame" on "On Beckett" at the Paramount Center. (Courtesy Carol Rosegg) “On Beckett” could be described as a conversation with ...