The Executioner’s Song first aired in 1982, as a two-part miniseries on NBC (188 minutes overall), earning an Emmy nomination for Norman Mailer, and an Emmy win for star Tommy Lee Jones, who played ...
For Irish author and two-time Booker Prize nominee Patrick McCabe, the song is the thing. Songs often act as lyrical shorthand for the complex tragedies that dominate his fiction. In McCabe's lurid ...