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Join NOW!Ever wonder what would happen if a bunch of well-known authors invaded your favorite indie bookstore? This past weekend, patrons around the country saw it happen. Sherman Alexie’s “Indies First” project successfully launched with writers around the nation volunteering at local independent booksellers, meeting with readers, selling books, and, in the case of children’s book […]
...moreSaturday 11/2: Jim Tolan, Cecilia Woloch and Sean Thomas Dougherty read as part of Poetry Night, hosted by Tolan. BookCourt, 7pm, free. Juliet Escoria, Sean H. Dolye, Andrew Worthington, Kendra Grant Malone, Stephen Tully Dierks. Worthington has a forthcoming novel, WALLS, due in 2014; Grant Malone has two collections of poetry, Everything is Quiet and […]
...moreSherman Alexie always loved to read, but it never occurred to him that he—or any other Native American, for that matter—could become a writer. That all changed when he read a poem by Adrian C. Louis and came to the following line: “O Uncle Adrian! I’m in the reservation of my mind.” Read his thunderclap […]
...moreDon’t miss this poem from Sherman Alexie’s forthcoming collection, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories. “Until he became an elephant, Sheldon referred to his left hand as ‘my hand’ and to his right hand as ‘my brother’s hand.’”
...more“When I read this comic by MariNaomi in The Rumpus, I remembered three people who were amazing to me at critical moments.” Sherman Alexie gave love to MariNaomi’s “SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: When You’re Young.” Hooray!
...moreA couple weeks ago, I linked to a bunch of very short stories — stories that were superbly written but that only took a few moments to read. People seemed to like that, so today, I’m doing the same thing with essays: “There is a hole in the ozone layer but they say not to […]
...moreThis week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full Schedule Here), Agriculture Reader holds a launch party, the Dead or Alive exhibition opens at […]
...moreSherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.) WFMU’s best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3). The always reliable New Scientist has a handy list of tricks for alien trackers. Check out this little dude, made entirely through friction. Recently some news has been been published […]
...moreI love Philip Larkin’s “An Arundel Tomb.” He hated it. On a side note, I really love that the BBC is willing to spend 30 minutes on the story behind a single poem. This is, I think, a good way to approach an online poetry journal–make it something other than a paper journal transferred onto […]
...moreThis week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman Alexie talks with Rick Moody, Samuel Beckett’s Letters get talked about, and Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine stand around, talk and sign books at The […]
...moreI swear to God if I hear one more thing about Sarah Palin I’m going to snap, so this week, The Rumpus is giving you a roundup of political links that are a lot more interesting than anything ever written by or about her. This may or may not continue, depending on whether people like […]
...moreIn New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at BAM, Sherman Alexie and Chuck Klosterman read, Guernica Magazine turns 5, Performa 09 begins, Literary Death Match returns to New York, and Lawrence Weschler presents […]
...moreIt’s rare to find a poem that perfectly captures the anger, absurdity, complexity, and hilarity of grief—something which Sherman Alexie does again and again in his new collection of poems, FACE, which is just out from Hanging Loose Press, and which I devoured in one sitting, and then immediately started over and re-read from the […]
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