Archive for 13. June 2009
The Great Death coming this fall
13. June 2009 by John Smelcer.
My novel The Great Death is due out this fall—a story about how the 1918-1920 world influenza pandemic devastated a small village in
“A remarkable story of feminine courage. A small miracle.” Tony Hillerman
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Chapter in the works
13. June 2009 by John Smelcer.
Working on a chapter for a scholarly book to be published in India/Asia on Native American languages and literature, an ambitious undertaking that will encompass Pleistocene human migrations into the New World, proto-language diffusion, pre-and-post Western European contact (on both coasts), ending with a discussion of contemporary issues in Native American culture and language loss and preservation as well literature.
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The Binghamton Poems
13. June 2009 by John Smelcer.
The Binghamton Poems is due out in July. The poems were personally selected and edited by my friend John Updike, who co-judged the National Poetry Book Award with me in the mid-1990s. My poetry book The Indian Prophet is also forthcoming.
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Waiting for the sun to come up
13. June 2009 by John Smelcer.
Went wild turkey hunting with John Clark, getting up at 4 a.m., sitting in the woods drinking coffee and waiting for the sun to come up. A lot of fun. John got a nice Tom.
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