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22 December 2023
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is an incredible ride through a depressing land, and a genuine pleasure to read. The 20 short stories involve a cast of characters who live and die on an Indian reservation, surrounded by poverty and alcoholism. Subtle like a time bomb, it is guaranteed to beat you profusely about the head and shoulders with its calm wit, everlasting dignity, and shuddering despair. I'm not fucking kidding,.. it's that good.
Alexie, who produced the 1998 film Smoke Signals, describes himself as an introvert who has purposefully developed a fast-talking, highly entertaining onstage comic persona. At public appearances, he launches into quick-witted monologues, taking dead aim at every race he can, while reserving a large amount of attention for what he calls "crazy white people." He cheerfully targets New Age white women who "come floating onto the reservation, healing everything in their path," and jokes about white people who expect him to read coyote stories, speak in a slow monotone, and "stare off into the distance as if constantly receiving visions."
"I probably had ten students with more talent than Alexie," said Alex Kuo, his college writing professor. "But he had a dedication that other students with, perhaps, more talent didn't have."
That dedication has paid off. One year after he graduated from college in 1991, two books of his poetry were published: I Would Steal Horses and The Business of Fancydancing. As the legend goes, their acceptance prompted him to kick five years of debilitating drinking in one night. Indian Killer came out a year later, and became a New York Times Notable Book.
He has won numerous awards, including the 1998 and 1999 World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout at the Taos Poetry Circus in New Mexico, and has since published five more books of poetry, as well as his new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World.
I could go on about how awesome this guy is, or you could just go out and read it for yourself. I suggest you do.
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Alexie, who produced the 1998 film Smoke Signals, describes himself as an introvert who has purposefully developed a fast-talking, highly entertaining onstage comic persona. At public appearances, he launches into quick-witted monologues, taking dead aim at every race he can, while reserving a large amount of attention for what he calls "crazy white people." He cheerfully targets New Age white women who "come floating onto the reservation, healing everything in their path," and jokes about white people who expect him to read coyote stories, speak in a slow monotone, and "stare off into the distance as if constantly receiving visions."
"I probably had ten students with more talent than Alexie," said Alex Kuo, his college writing professor. "But he had a dedication that other students with, perhaps, more talent didn't have."
That dedication has paid off. One year after he graduated from college in 1991, two books of his poetry were published: I Would Steal Horses and The Business of Fancydancing. As the legend goes, their acceptance prompted him to kick five years of debilitating drinking in one night. Indian Killer came out a year later, and became a New York Times Notable Book.
He has won numerous awards, including the 1998 and 1999 World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout at the Taos Poetry Circus in New Mexico, and has since published five more books of poetry, as well as his new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World.
I could go on about how awesome this guy is, or you could just go out and read it for yourself. I suggest you do.
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1717
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issue
vol 6 - issue 02 (oct 2003)
section
entertainmental