Just about everybody’s who’s ever spent time in the YA section of a bookstore has heard of Sherman Alexie, right? Author of the award-winning YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, he’s been publishing since the early 90s – check out his body of work here.
Anyway, he’ll be speaking at a Harvard Bookstore event, held at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, Cambridge on October 26th.
(via Amitha Knight – see her kid’s lit author events page here)
From the bookstore’s press release:
SHERMAN ALEXIE
discusses
War Dances
$5 tickets go on sale Mon., Oct. 5th
Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome chronicler of contemporary
American Indian life SHERMAN ALEXIE for a reading from his new
collection of short stories, War Dances.After his award-winning foray into young adult fiction with The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie returns to
the short story format with a heartbreaking and hilarious collection
that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and
external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large.With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers,
fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with
ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal
journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life
choices, Alexie introduces us to personal worlds as they transform
beyond return. In the title story, a famous writer must decide how to
care for his distant father who is slowly dying a “natural Indian
death” from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself
may have a brain tumor. Alexie dissects a vintage-clothing store
owner’s failing marriage and his courtship of a married photographer
in various airports across the country; what happens when a
politician’s son commits a hate crime; and how a young boy discovers
his self-worth while writing obituaries for his local newspaper.EVENT INFORMATION
DATE: Monday, October 26th
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge
TICKETS: $5 tickets go on sale Mon., Oct. 5, online, at Harvard Book
Store, and over the phone with a credit card (617.661.1515).
The Harvard Bookstore usually has books for sale and signing at these events, if you’re interested. Event tickets are also good for $5 credit at the store. (I’m not sure how long they’re valid, but I think it’s about thirty days from the date of purchase.)
P.S. Love “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”? Get the reading guide here.
