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...
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...
[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,...
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...
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 [...]
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...
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...
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. [...]
"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...
Q thinks about sports in general, about Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson in particular, about Sherman Alexie, and about the new film Sonicsgate, which you can apparently watch online. (We hope the women who saved the Storm get props.) Jayda has seen the film; she notes a few other women's hoops documentaries, including one about notorious former Penn State coach Rene Portland. Speaking of films, whatever...
Laura Jumper, who recently finished hiking the each of the 2,167 miles of the Appalachian Trail, found this Sherman Alexie poem copied into a register along the way.
Based on award-winning author Sherman Alexie's short stories, Smoke Signals centers on two boys on the Coeur D'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, who could not be more different. Victor is the extrovert who excels at basketball and Thomas is the savant who lives with his grandmother...
Great article on Sherman Alexie in The New York Times . Alexie was adored after the publication of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian . It was very successful, and he was embraced by the YA world. He could have followed up Part-time Indian with another YA book and got himself some more lovin', at least from YA people. But he didn't. Instead, he published War Dances , a volume of short...
Sunday, October 25 Webcast of Kate DiCamillo reading The Magician’s Elephant, Porter Square Books , 4:00 pm Submit questions to webcast@candlewick.com. 7:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store ), $25 *Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood Monday, October 26 6:00 PM, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store ), $5 *Sherman Alexie, War Dances Rawi Hage,...
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