Understanding Sherman Alexie (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
That's the ultimate magic trick behind a short story and Sherman Alexie is a conjurer without equal. Short story - Sherman Alexie - Arts - Short Stories - Literature
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Kent Mackenzie's remarkable 1961 film The Exiles was released on DVD this Tuesday (you can buy it from Amazon , but, you know, try not to). The two-disc set includes a whole bunch of Mackenzie's short work, documentation of his process, and an interview between Stranger contributor Sean Axmaker and Stranger Genius Sherman Alexie . I reviewed The Exiles about a year ago: Possibly the first, probably...
mitali's fire escape (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Thanksgiving is my favorite North American holiday by far. It doesn't make new or poor Americans feel as left out as some of the other festival days. Why did the fat dude in red bring presents for everybody in my class except me? Duck For Turkey Day , a new picture book from Albert Whitman & Co by Jacqueline Jules , illustrated by Kathryn Mitter, tells the story of Tuyet, a Vietnamese-American...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The men in Sherman Alexie's terrific collection of stories and poems are frequently flummoxed -- by life, women, history.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small entrance fee, the fair is already going strong in its 26th year despite a significantly reduced budget , and is celebrating authors big and small. Says the Miami New Times : The afterparties are nil and the fashions are more along the lines of smoking...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
We have a reading about a boat trip and a book about a heroic dog tonight, and then three other, more intriguing events. Martin Limon reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop from his book G.I. Bones , which is about a ghost , a red-light district, and the army. Also a missing girl. It is fiction. The Central Library is hosting an event from Jack Straw Writers. The Washington Center for the Book co-presents...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Local authors Sherman Alexie and Timothy Egan are among the top sellers at Queen Anne Books.
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Now that baseball season is officially over, it's hard to ignore that another season of NBA is in full swing -- a painful reminder of what was taken from us in Seattle. And now, of course, there's a documentary to go along with it. Sonicsgate made it's way online last month and while the film has a lot of issues (its in desperate need of art direction, for one -- the Powerpoint-like graphics "needed...
Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[from Sherman Alexie 's Face , Hanging Loose , 2009] The Sum of His Parts Driving home, I ran over a bull snake And tore it into three pieces. I didn't mean to kill the thing. I'd thought it was the thin shadow Of a telephone pole stretched across the road. I realized it was a snake Only after I'd run it over. Thump, thump: That's the percussion Of car tires and snake. After I ran over it, I stopped,...
SPD TODAY (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta Press) FACE by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN by Bhanu Kapil (Kelsey Street Press) SCARY, NO SCARY by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean) BREAKING POEMS by Suheir Hammad (Cypher Books) THE DIFFICULT FARM by Heather Christle (Octopus Books) CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta Press) INCUBATION: A SPACE...
Minerva Koenig (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Every time I read a book, I learn something about my own writing. I read a short novel by Sherman Alexie a couple of days ago, called Flight. When I finished, I had the same feeling I had after reading Indian Killer some years ago: why the hell is this guy so good? His writing [...]
cynsations (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Join readergirlz in discussing Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell (Dutton, 2005) this month at the readergirlz blog . Comment at the "welcome" post. An hour-long live chat with Marlene is scheduled for Nov. 24, beginning at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST. From the promotional copy of Sweetgrass Basket: In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story...
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Book lovers, get ready to celebrate because the 26th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International (Fair), is just around the corner. Presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC), the Fair will take place Nov. 8 – 15 at the college’s Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., in downtown Miami. The Fair...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Received the following email: This is Austin Allen, formerly of The Abbeville Manual of Style. I wanted to write you as a new editor for Big Think, a site that conducts video interviews with top experts in various fields. We interviewed Sherman Alexie this week and he shared his (strong) opinions on print vs. electronic books. [...]
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"Nobody who's ever been poor would ever use the phrase 'selling out.'" So said Sherman Alexie, award-winning author of "War Dances," "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," in an interview with Big Think this week. The candid, funny discussion touched on his work, his Spokane Indian roots, his rise...
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