NW Book Lovers
From the Pacific NW Booksellers Association | promoting independents since 1965
  • Find a store
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Browse
    • N.W. Voices: Essays
    • Conversations: Interviews
    • The Storefront: NW booksellers
    • Face Out:
      Bookseller recommended
    • One Nightstand:
      Reader recommended
    • Award Winners
    • A Cup of News
    • Best Foot Forward
    • Doodles
    • Reading-Related Rambles
    • The Shelf Talker
    • Turning Pages
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us
Browse: Home / The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Oct

24

2017

1

remark

Annie Carl

Reading While Disabled

Two weekends ago I attended my first Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) tradeshow. I had absolutely the best time, met some really incredible people (doing incredible things!), and learned more than I thought possible. It was also a physical challenge I posed to myself. See, I’m a high-function disabled woman. I was born with lipomeningomyelocele, …

Sep

19

2017

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 10th anniversary edition

Sherman Alexie’s “Absolutely True Diary” Turns 10

by Sue Corbett  Sep 14, 2017 for Publishers Weekly A decade after its original release, Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award winner, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown) is being reissued in a special anniversary edition, with 70-plus pages of bonus material including a new introduction from Jacqueline Woodson, family photographs, and—most intriguing—an excerpt …

Dec

17

2012

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney

“I’ve always admired Ellen Forney’s humor and honesty, but Marbles is a major leap forward. It’s a hilarious memoir about mental illness, yes, but it’s also an incisive study of what it means to be human and how we ache to become better humans. Amazing stuff.”—Sherman Alexie, Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Buy Marbles from a NW bookstore at IndieBound.

Dec

8

2012

Day 8 of 24 Days of Books: Short Stories

“If you ever get a chance to see Sherman Alexie in person, do it. He is the most amazing speaker: smart, funny, smart, opinionated, smart, provocative—did I mention smart??? But if you can’t see him in person, for goodness sakes read his books. (By the way, the Multnomah County Library system picked two of Alexie’s …

Oct

1

2012

We Read Banned Books.

It’s the 30th anniversary for Banned Books Week this week—time to celebrate your favorite banned and challenged books. At Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, MT, they’re discounting a different banned book each day this week. Today it’s Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which was the fifth most challenged book of 2011, according …

Jun

4

2012

Song for a Part-Time Indian

Any author would consider selling his soul to have someone write a song based on his book. We gotta wonder what Sherman Alexie paid for this one. Incredibly charming, even if a little truncated. Now we can’t wait to see the musical!!

Sep

7

2011

What Will You Read for Banned Books Week?

The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week is September 24 through October 1, and they’ve got a neat way for anyone, anywhere to participate this year—what they’re calling a virtual read-out. All you have to do is film yourself reading from your favorite banned book and post it on this YouTube channel. The booksellers at …

Jun

28

2011

Another Great Something From Sherman Alexie

There’s no real news hook to this post—just a link to a cool new website from one of our favorite NW authors. If you’re a Sherman Alexie fan, you’ll want to go here to learn what Alexie is reading (Wendy Videlock, Lydia Davis, Zachary Schomburg) and thinking (about gay marriage in New York, his forthcoming book …

Search

Facebook icon Twitter icon Instagram icon
What are you reading?

Advertising information

We recommend

Of N.W. interest

  • Book Nook Bits for Teens
  • Brad Craft: Used Buyer
  • Brian Doyle: Complete Epiphanies
  • Literary Arts
  • Northwest Passages Book Club
  • NW Book Talk
  • Oregon Humanities
  • Poetry Northwest
  • Seattle City of Lit Map
  • Seattle Indie Bookstore Day
  • Seattle Literary Map
  • Writing the Northwest

Of national interest

  • Authors Against Book Bans
  • Bookstore Romance Day
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Independent Bookstore Day
  • Indie Bob Spot
  • largehearted boy
  • Literary Hub
  • Live Wire Radio's Open Book Podcast
  • New York Times Books
  • NPR Books
  • Salon.com
  • The Book Man
  • The Rumpus

On the industry

  • Book Publishers Northwest News
  • Bookselling This Week
  • PW Daily
  • Shelf Awareness

For library lovers

  • ALA READ Poster Series
  • EarlyWord
  • Home
  • Find an Indie Bookstore Near You!
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us

© 2010-2026 NW Book Lovers

A production of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.