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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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Uploaded: November 9, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Author: milkriverfilm

Length: 0:09:57
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Video Comments:
Cl8oN883 (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 06:44:59 PM)
flight was the best book i have ever read in my entire life. i am a teenager and i agree that it is bloody but the message is great.
hpcoldplayfan (Sunday 16th of November 2008 09:03:11 PM)
I'm finishing this book right now and I started it yesterday. It's funny and thoughtful, I just love how much insight we get to his culture. He's a very good author.
AmberDeanie (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 06:48:12 PM)
Its so awesome to see this. I have many family members that live on the reservation, and have also spent a lot of time up there, where he is from. Its nice to see someone from Wellpinit write about it a little bit! Fabulous!
ccharging (Friday 10th of October 2008 10:10:34 PM)
i had to the chance to meet him at my school what a wonderful man and he gives me such hope for a better tommorow
XNEWTXNEWTX (Thursday 28th of August 2008 04:14:28 PM)
im confused im reading this book for school and i got really into it but he maid this character up?
Icupae (Thursday 4th of September 2008 10:01:06 PM)
He made the character Junior up, but a good chunk of him is based on Alexie's life.
kwatson813 (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 01:37:07 PM)
Has anyone read Alexies book Indian Killer?
missjucylucy (Sunday 12th of October 2008 12:48:10 AM)
I did years ago...Loved it! It was really weird for though cuz I know Washington state and California really well...so almost every scene in the book really took me there, I was on a journey for real, Shermans very intense, great thriller. ;)
McSpooner (Sunday 27th of July 2008 11:26:14 PM)
i have a boner right now. lol
esmirna19 (Monday 23rd of June 2008 06:21:09 PM)
gordy is a pimp