“Flesh would become stone and stone become flesh, and someday they would meet in the mouth of a bird.” Louise Erdrich’s Python’s Kiss (Harper 2026) is a collection of short stories written over the last 20 years, with a number having appeared previously, in slightly different form, in numerous publications. The thirteen stories each haveContinue reading “PYTHON’S KISS – Louise Erdrich”
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THE MIGHTY RED – Louise Erdrich
“Like the mighty red, history was a flood.” “So it was, every teaspoon of sugar that was stirred into a cup or baked into a pudding was haunted by the slave trade and the slaughter of buffalo. Just as now, into every teaspoon, is mixed the pragmatic nihilism of industrial sugar farming and the deathContinue reading “THE MIGHTY RED – Louise Erdrich”
THE SENTENCE – Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (Harper 2021) was my last read of the year, and it was my favorite read of the year. (I didn’t think anything would edge out Black Sun, but Erdrich’s effortless, timely and amazing storytelling did. I shouldn’t have been surprised; Erdrich has been weaving some of my favorite stories for decades.)Continue reading “THE SENTENCE – Louise Erdrich”
A Girl Named Tommi 