Laughing with the Erdrich Sisters

Heid and Lise Erdrich's visit to campus was great fun! Their writing is terrific and it was a surprise (at least to this writer) to discover how funny both sisters are. Lise, especially, is a natural comedian. The Missouri Room was filled with laughter on Monday night (November 3). The sisters also took their show on the road and visited BSC classrooms on Tuesday, November 4.

The BSC Library owns several works by the Erdrich sisters, including:

• Fishing for Myth: Poems by Heid Erdrich
• The Mother's Tongue by Heid Erdrich
• Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community edited by Heid Erdrich and Laura Tohe

• Bears Make Rock Soup and Other Stories by Lise Erdrich
• Night Train: Stories by Lise Erdrich
• Sacagawea by Lise Erdrich

A new book by Heid, National Monuments, will be available soon and the library will get a copy.

Another sister, Louise Erdrich, is also a well-known, award-winning writer. Check out her books at the BSC Library, too!

The BSC Library's catalog, ODIN, is your gateway to finding these books.

Sherman Alexie on the Colbert Report

This just in! Sherman Alexie will appear on the October 28th edition of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, which airs at 11:30 p.m. Eastern and will be rebroadcast 4 times throughout the day on October 29th. Check your local listings, or watch online.

AND ... The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian has won another award -- a 2008 Washington State book award, the Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award, for middle grades and young adults.

Read more about it in the Seattle Times.

Heid and Lise Erdrich at BSC

Authors and sisters Heid and Lise Erdrich will be on campus November 3 and 4.

On November 3, at 7:30 p.m., Missouri Room, Student Union, they will read from their work and also discuss Sherman Alexie's book. On November 4, they will make classroom visits.

Heid E. Erdrich is the author of three collections of poetry: The Mother's Tongue, National Monuments, and Fishing for Myth, as well as co-editor of Sister Nations: Native American Women on Community. She co-founded the Turtle Mountain Writing Workshop with Louise Erdrich, her sister. Her books have each been nominated for the Minnesota Book Awards and her writing has received numerous grants and honors. Her degrees are from Dartmouth and Johns Hopkins.

Lise Erdrich, is the author of Night Train, her first collection of short fiction. She has also published Bears Make Rock Soup and Sacagawea, two books for children. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, she was born in Minnesota, lives in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and has been occupied in the fields of Indian Health Service and Indian Education for twenty years.

The Erdrich sisters’ appearance is part of the Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the English Discipline of the Arts and Communications Department at Bismarck State College, and funded in part by a grant from the Bismarck State College Foundation.