Of the collections of Shepard's work, this one features three absolute masterpieces (Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West), and the accompanying works are about as wildly idiosyncratic a sampling of Shepard's oeuvre as one could possible expect.

La Turista is one I read years ago, but it's more freewheeling and wild. Tongues and Savage Love are both brief and experimental works, undertaken with Richard Chaikin. And The Tooth of Crime is a bit dated, perhaps, but overall the strongest of the bunch outside of the main three. Many of these are reviewed on here separately, as they've been released individually as well.