Selected Internet Resources

General

• Dinitia Smith, "Heroes Now Tend to Be More Hard Edged, Urban, and Pop Oriented" (New York Times 21 April 1997)

Louise Erdrich

• Biographies: Wikipedia | Voices from the Gaps (U of Minnesota) | Modern American Poetry (U of Illinois) | Poetry Foundation | Erdrich Homepage (Amy Leigh McNally & Piyali Nath Dala, "Voices from the Gaps," U of MN)
• Interviews:
  • With Robert Spillman (Salon, May 5, 1996)
  • With Katie Bacon (Atlantic Unbound, January 17, 2001)
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Faces of America (PBS)
• Criticism:
  • "What about the sweetheart?: The 'Different Shape of Anishinabe Two Sisters Stories in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tales of Burning Love" (Karah Stokes, MELUS Summer 1999)
  • "A Healthy Balance: Religion, Identity, and Community in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine." (Karla Sanders, MELUS Summer 1998)
• Selected works available online:
  • "Sister Godzilla" (Atlantic Monthly, February 2001)
  • "Satan: Hijacker of a Planet" (Atlantic Monthly, August 1997)
  • "Matchimanito" (Atlantic Monthly, July 1988)
  • "Destiny" (Atlantic Monthly, January 1985)
  • "Saint Marie" (Atlantic Monthly, March 1984)

Sherman Alexie

• Alexie Homepage (fallsapart productions)  The links page includes a long list of stories, poems and essays available online, as well as selected sites devoted to Spokane and Coeur d'Alene Indian history.
• Alexie at the Academy of American Poets (also features good links)
• Interview with Jessica Chapel (Atlantic Unbound, June 2000)
• Profile by Russ Spencer (Book Magazine, July/August 2000)
• Selected works available online:
  • "Dear John Wayne" (Alexie reads this story aloud at Salon.com)
  • "A Reservation Table of the Elements" (National Endowment for the Arts)
  • "Defending Walt Whitman" (Beloit Poetry Journal)

Greg Sarris

• Sarris reads (in RealVideo) from his latest novel, Watermelon Nights (UCSB Voices)
• Sarris's 1992 talk on "Poetics and Politics" at the University of Arizona (includes a video of Sarris reading "Waiting for the Green Frog")