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.

What's Up with the Juvenile Wall?

Are you wondering about the “Juvenile Wall” on the first floor of Schafer Hall? Wonder no more ...

The "Juvenile Wall" is a place where students, faculty, and staff can put drawings (or photos) of themselves at the age of 14 (the same age as Arnold, the lead character in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian). Some of the drawings that are already on the wall came out of the "Campus Conversation" events held earlier this week. Others came out of class activities related to Campus Read.

This is YOUR invitation to add your own self-portrait at age 14 (or thereabouts) to the wall. What did you look like then? How did you feel?