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| Sherman Alexie Speaks |
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Poet-Novelist-Filmmaker (and personal
favorite writer) Sherman Alexie was a
featured guest at the Texas Book Festival in
Austin, speaking at the Texas State Capitol
and, as shown here, participating in a Young
Adult novelists' panel at Alamo
Drafthouse-Lamar on November 3, 2007. He
reads a snippet from his new book "The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
and then answers a few questions at the end.
The panel included eight writers (i'll post
clips of some of the others over time). At
one point he appears to be flippant, but it's
a false impression -- the questions were
being randomly drawn from a fishbowl, and the
questioner had no choice about who or what to
ask (a perfectly odd format). In any case i
thought Sherman handled it with great humor
and poise, and made the situation evolve into
a funny and astute answer.
Also on the panel were Jacques Couvillon,
Cynthia Leitich Smith, Adrienne Kress, Perry
Moore, April Lurie, Neil Shusterman and Brian
Yansky. The hosts were Barbara Chisholm and
Rosalind Faires.
Check out Sherman's site at
http://www.fallsapart.com/
Note that the new book he reads from here has
just been nominated for a National Book
Award!
UPDATE: Alexie WON the National Book Award
for this book. Congrats Sherman!
Many, many thanks to Sherman for posting a
link to this video on the homepage of his
website. Esokapi!
Alexie is also the writer and director of
three acclaimed films -- Smoke Signals (the
first film made and produced by an all Native
American cast and crew), The Business of
Fancydancing (a highly underrated and
overlooked film in my opinion) and 49.
Filmed and edited by tony gallucci, milk
river film
Holly Riedel, executive producer
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Durée : 597 s |
| UCSD Guestbook: Sherman Alexie |
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Rated R: Mature language and themes. Author,
poet, screenwriter of "Smoke Signals" and
satirist Sherman Alexie has been hailed as
one of the most important writers of this
generation. The New Yorker named him "one of
the top 20 writers for the 21st Century."
Alexie's most recent book is the acclaimed
"The Toughest Indian in the World." Series:
"UCSD Guestbook" [1/2002] [Humanities] [Show
ID: 6190]
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Durée : 1659 s |
| Sherman Alexie on 9/11 |
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I recorded poet, novelist and filmmaker
Sherman Alexie at Rutgers University in
Newark only a few weeks after September 11,
2001. With humor and fearless candor, Alexie
spoke incisively of the broader implications
of the tragic event and its still fresh
aftermath.
Tags : Alexie poetry 9-11 WTC documentary lecture politics Rutgers |
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Durée : 597 s |
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