Here's the description and table of contents for Intersection of Fantasy & Native America: From H.P. Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman: A number of contemporary Native American authors incorporate elements of fantasy into their fiction, while several non-Native fantasy authors utilize elements of Native America in their storytelling. Nevertheless,...
Are you into the literary night life? Looking for some literary-based events around Phoenix? Want to learn from the masters? Read and discuss classic or new works of fiction? Then go no further. I said no further! Just check out some of the events below. We’ll be profiling the top fiction and poetry related adventures each month, starting now.(1) Leslie Marmon Silko is coming to town. Author
My teen years were a weird time for me when it came to reading. Actually pretty much after age 11, I stopped reading age appropriate stuff. I went from Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume to VC Andrews and Stephen King. One summer, I actually picked my dad's copy of Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, which is definitely not meant for 11 year olds. I was just a voracious reader and I loved everything...
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose. The order of titles is of no significance whatsoever. Well, the first 15 that come to mind... and leaving out the ones I have worked on or the ones about...
I've just finished reading Yellow Woman and a Beauty Spirit: Esssays on Native American Life Today . It's an informative book of essays by Leslie Marmon Silko that explores such topics the role of rocks and other natural elements in Native American culture. It also looks at Silko's encounters with the U.S. Border Patrol, the role of storytelling in Native American lives, among other topics. Yellow...
It’s the birthday of novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1948). She grew up on a Pueblo reservation, where her community was made up of matrilineal families: Women owned the houses and the fields and were the authority figures, and men did much of the child rearing. Her first [...]
Thursday click the pic to learn about the Read-a-thon Thirteen Thirteen Story Collections I'll Be Reading From For Saturday's Read-a-thon Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway (contains 25 short stories to support the discussion of craft) The Sincerest Form: Writing Fiction by Imitation by Nicholas Delbanco (contains 24 short stories associated...
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