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May 15th, 2008
09:16 pm - Louise Erdrich: Beautiful, Powerful Words
"Are you Louise Erdrich?" an elegant woman dressed in black asked me last night.
"No, but thanks for the compliment."
I have admired Erdrich's writing for over twenty years, and eagerly wait for each new book she publishes. The woman waiting to greet this famous author obviously hadn't looked at the author posters plastered around the lobby of Portsmouth, NH's beautifully-restored Music Hall, where two friends and I went to hear Louise Erdrich read from and speak about her new novel, A Plague of Doves.
I first heard Erdrich around 1984 in Los Angeles when I went to hear her read from Love Medicine in a small theatre where I sat in the front row and lost myself in her words. Erdrich continues to mesmerize, both through her voice and her words. Don't take my word for it. Listen to these wonderful interviews about writing this "multi-generational mystery: (with Liane Hanson on NPR and with WBUR's Tom Ashbrook)
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