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3 weeks ago | 
shermanalexie.substack.com | Sherman Alexie
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In college, I was the student driver for a famous poet—if poets can be said to be famous. She warned me that poets are among the most jealous and devious people in the world. “If you ask a poet to read for ten minutes,” she said, “then you can bet your life they’ll read for twenty-two.
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1 month ago | 
yourstelecast.com | Sherman Alexie
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In New Delhi’s Maharaja Agrasen Model School (MAMS), for instance, pre-school admission that used to cost Rs 46,000 annually now costs as much as Rs 70,000, say parents. The school has even segregated classrooms on the basis of whether or not parents are willing to pay an extra Rs 7,500 for their children to sit in an air-conditioned room, they said.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
northernvirginiamag.com | Sherman Alexie |Michele Kettner
5 Banned Books You Should Read, as Recommended by NoVA Bookstores From picture books to timeless classics, these banned books deserve another read.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
earlybirdbooks.com | Orrin Grey |Emily Bitto |Sherman Alexie |Stephen Kelman
Do you have a precocious high schooler in your home? Or are you teaching a classroom full of them? They are filled with ideas and ambitions, but they can also be prone to distraction. Fortunately, most of them love to read, and these 10 books are sure to pull them in and keep them enthralled, from start to finish.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sherman Alexie
I was a little Spokane Indian boy who read every book and saw every movie about Indians, no matter how terrible. I’d read those historical romance novels about the steroidal Indian warrior ravaging the virginal white schoolteacher. I can still see the cover art.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
read.substack.com | Hamish McKenzie |Nicola Lamb |Caroline Chambers |Sherman Alexie
The New York Times published a story today about Substack’s rise as a destination for political coverage, and noted some growth stats along the way. One of the numbers that was quietly slipped into the piece: there are now more than 4 million paid subscriptions to publications and podcasts on Substack. When thinking about numbers at internet scale, it’s easy to gloss over a number like 4 million. But 4 million is a large number.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
heresy-press.com | Jonah Winter |Bernard Schweizer |Sherman Alexie |Elizabeth Cline
Guest EssayFear and PublishingBy Jonah WinterFranklin Roosevelt once famously said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” –which begs the question, what about Siberian Tigers? Or nuclear weapons? Or drunk drivers?But after one gets such sarcastic rejoinders out of one’s system, one has to acknowledge the point he was making. Fear is itself a dangerous thing. And when fear takes over a person, a community, a country, or a publishing world, bad things can happen.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
shermanalexie.substack.com | Sherman Alexie
My high school chemistry teacher recently died. I hadn’t seen or talked to him in at least 35 years. But he’s vivid in my mind today. I was a critically ill child. Due to my hydrocephalus, I had two brain surgeries before I was two years old and spent the first seven years of my life in and out of hospitals. Like many seriously ill kids, I dreamed of becoming a pediatrician. I think those dreams become sick-kid-mythology. Our doctors and nurses become our Gods and we want to join their pantheon.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
parents.com | Holly Garcia |Sherman Alexie |Louisa May Alcott |Becky Albertalli
If you’re an avid reader, you’ve probably heard of Colleen Hoover. Bookshelves everywhere are filled with her novels, and they’ve also exploded over social media and #BookTok lately. Hoover even made Time’s Most Influential List for 2023, with more than 20 million copies of her books in existence today. Hoover's novels are posed as epic "romance" stories and often tackle mature themes like domestic abuse and addiction. Some titles even venture into the psychological thriller genre.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan |Jonathan Potter |Kristen Lenea Ryberg |Sherman Alexie
Fountain topendeavours to catch raysof early morning sun falling throughthe now leafless branchesof park trees. Early in the morning, or maybe now the days are shorter not so early, the fountain in our park is already spewing water into the air like a whale. On the days the sun is already out, but still low above the low skyline of our town, the top of the fountains tries to mimic diamonds by catching the early morning sunshine.
