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Search site web home books movies recordings essays calendar biography awards articles features road trips store gallery academic center press center links contact news	Sherman's book War Dances was selected for the 2011 One Book, One Philadelphia community read, which will run from Jan. 19 to March 17, with a series of events including discussions, workshops, and dance and musical performances. In March, Sherman will visit the city for school and public readings. Read more in the Philadelphia Inquirer. *True Diary* is among the 2010 Washington Reads selections by State Librarian Jan Walsh, who will soon retire, selected as memorable reads from prevoius years. War Dances, winner of the 2010 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction, is out in paperback from Gove Press. This is a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. Poems "Another Proclamation" and "Looking Glass" are included in Pleiades 30.2. The July / August 2010 issue of World Literature Today features a tribute to Sherman as the 2010 Puterbaugh Fellow, which includes an interview and essays on his work. Sherman's poems, "Crow Book" and "Small Ceremonies" are also included. You can read a limited sample online. Columbia College Chicago's Court Green poetry journal includes Sherman's poems "All in the Family" and "Roll, Baby, Roll" in the "Dossier: 1970s" section of the journal - a poetic tribute to the 70s. The Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Cave Wall includes Sherman's poem "Valediction." "Roman Catholic Haiku" and "Unsacred Sonnet" appear in the 2010 Denver Quarterly, volume 44, issue 2. Sherman's sevenlings from Mudlark were chosen as an online poetry highlight of the last five years, posted on eScene43. Smoke Signals will play on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel in May as part of a series of films presented and introduced by Professor Hanay Geiogamah, director of the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. The films and introductions will explore a different topic each night. War Dances wins the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. Click here to read the press release. Read the Seattle Times article. Robert Hershon, editor of Hanging Loose Press, presents a poem by Sherman Alexie in The Best American Poetry blog, 3/21/10. The poem first appeared in Hanging Loose 56 and was reprinted in The Business of Fancydancing, his first book. Sherman is the recipient of the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award. Selected Shorts features an hour with Sherman, broadcast during the week of February 25, 2010 - March 3, 2010. The program features "Breaking and Entering" by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong, from War Dances. You can listen via podcast. A new book, Conversations with Sherman Alexie, edited by Nancy Peterson, includes interviews - ranging from 1993 to 2007- that feature Alexie speaking candidly about the ideas and themes behind poetry collections, short story collections, novels, and screenplays. Read "Blood In. Blood Out." and "Verminators" in The Normal School literary magazine. Visit Blackbird to read three new poems by Sherman. The Winter 2010 issue of Contrary magazine includes three new Sherman poems, one of which,"Ode to Jolene," links to Dolly Parton singing this song. The Volume 6, No. 2, Fall / Winter 2009-10 issue of Ninth Letter includes Sherman's poem, "Phone Calls from Ex-Lovers." Students in a law class at Absegami High School in Galloway, NJ, inspired by the death of a dog named Oscar in True Diary, have formed Project OSCAR – Our Students Contributing to Animal Rescue – which will raise money for vaccinations for dogs in needy areas. Click here to read more. Little Brown released a hard cover limited edition of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, which includes a foil-stamped, die-cut slipcase and 4-color interior art. Sherman talks about Christmas on BBC's Radio 4. Listen to the archived podcast from the 12/27/09 interview. Face is on the San Francisco Chronicle's list of best poetry books for 2009. more news

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