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SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Lecture and Book Signing by Sherman Alexie=3A Without Reservations=3A  An Urban Indian=27s Comic=2C Poetic =26 Highly Irreverent Look at the World
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Residential Education is organizing a lecture and book signing with Sherman Alexie=2E  A prolific novelist=2C poet and screenplay writer and winner of the 2007 National Book Award=2C Alexie has been hailed as one of the best young writers of his generation=2E A gifted orator=2C Alexie won the World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout four years in a row=2C from 1998 to 2001=2E In his lectures=2C he tells tales of contemporary American Indian life laced with razor-sharp humor=2C unsettling candor and biting wit=2E He reshapes our myths and stereotypes by speaking his mind on a wide range of issues - from race relations=2C religion and politics to homophobia=2C war and morality=2E A Spokane/Coeur d=27Alene Indian=2C Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington=2E As a college student=2C he landed in a poetry-writing class and his professor quickly recognized his =22intensity of language=2C passion and energy=2E=22 Upon the publication of The Business of Fancydancing=2C his first collection of poetry=2C The New York Times Book Review described him as =22one of the major lyric voices of our time=2E=22  Since then=2C Alexie has authored eleven books of poetry=2C several collections of short stories=2C two novels and numerous works for magazines=2E He wrote the screenplay for and produced the feature film Smoke Signals=2C based on his book=2C The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven=2E The film premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival=2C winning both the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy=2E=0D=0AHis latest book=2C The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a coming-of-age=2C interracial comedy for young adults based on his first year at an all-white high school for which he received the National Book Award=2E With his humorous=2C revealing and exuberant works of art=2C Alexie compels audiences to see the world for all of its pitfalls and possibilities=2C all of which combine to make him an ideal voice to appeal to students=2E=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A
LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Kresge Auditorium=3A 555 Nathan Abott Way=2C behind the Stanford Law School
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