Roxana Saberi Speaks at BSC - April 20 - 7:30 p.m.

The Campus Read Committee and our co-sponsors (North Dakota Humanities Council, BSC Foundation, North Dakota Newspaper Association, and North Dakota Broadcasters Association) invite you to attend a presentation and book signing by Roxana Saberi on Tuesday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Bismarck State College.

Saberi will also be at Barnes & Noble in Bismarck from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, for a book signing.

Saberi is an Iranian-American journalist and former Miss North Dakota. She will speak about her ordeal as a political prisoner in Tehran, Iran. Copies of her "hot off the press" memoir, Between Two Worlds: My Life and Capitivity in Iran, will be available.

Soapbox: Books Are Not Dead. They're Not Even Dying

Jack Estes has published an essay in the April 5, 2010, issue of Publishers Weekly entitled "Books Are Not Dead. They're Not Even Dying." Music to my ears.

Check it out!

Soapbox: Books Are Not Dead. They're Not Even Dying: " I've heard people aren't reading so much anymore, but as fa..."

Sherman Alexie Wins 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award

Add one more to the list of awards for Sherman Alexie, author of the 2008-09 Campus Read book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. On March 23, Alexie's book, War Dances, was selected as the winner of the the 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The Pen/Faulkner Award is America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. As winner, Alexie will receive $15,000. Each of the four finalists -- Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna, Lorriane M. Lopez for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stairs, and Colson Whitehead for Sag Harbor -- receives $5,000.

All five authors will be honored at the 30th Anniversary Pen/Faulkner Award Ceremony on May 8, 2010, at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Alexie has visited the BSC campus twice in recent years.

War Dances is available at the BSC Library in printed form at PS 3551 .L35774 W37 2009. It is also available as an eAudiobook for download. Check them out!