News for Book Lovers

March 5 and March 7 Dave Stuart The Ecuador Effect UNM Press A Novel About a Young Anthropologist’s Adventures in Equator

March 12 and March 14 David M. Johnson Rebirth of Wonder University of New Mexico Press Poetry

March 19 and March 21 Sherry Monahan Tombstone Treasures University of New Mexico Press The Gold Mines and Saloons of Tombstone

March 26 and March 28 Marie Romero Cash Tortilla Chronicles University of New Mexico Press memoir About Growing up in Santa Fe

Write On Four Corners runs on Wednesdays at 10:30 am and Fridays at 2:30 pm Mountain Time on KSJE FM 90.9 You can listen on the web at www.ksje.com in real time by clicking on listen live, or by going MP3 Archives, Write On Four Corners, and the program you wish to hear. We usually send up the podcasts a little after the Wednesday broadcasts.

The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Doris Lessing.  December 7, she will deliver her Nobel Lecture.  For a transcript and video: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-lecture.html

For her biography and complete list of works: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/bio-bibl.html

Works available in the SJC Library at call number: PR 6023 .E833

Four-gated City (1969)

Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1972)

Summer Before the Dark (1974)

Walking in the Shade (1997)

Golden Notebook (1999)

Sweetest Dream (2002)

There are a number of great sites where you can learn more about Native American authors. Many of them offer the ability to search by tribe, author’s name, and/or title of work.

Native American Authors (Internet Public Library)
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online http://www.nativewiki.org/Storytellers:_Native_American_Authors_Online