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gokkun
05-04-2009, 03:51 PM
I just got into this author is there anyone else that would like a forum for him?

promtbr
05-05-2009, 10:14 AM
His is an excellent young voice in contemporary lit. I got introduced to him as he lives not far from me (Wellpinit First Nation) . His Business of Fancy Dancing floored me. At a local reading a few years ago, he had to drive through a blizzard on a rural highway to get here, and he had the audience in stitches as he told us how he at one point had to drive so slow that a sasquatch was running along side his car and motioned to roll his window down and asked if he was alright. He signed a couple of his books for me :D. He's a very funny, charismatic guy, and an unbelievable reader. But that said, I haven't read his subsequent books, mostly in fear that he would not live up to the height of BFD: Special Delivery and Giving Blood , which I think should be taught in all US schools along with TKAMB. (No, I am not a native american)...

But as far as his own forum, not going to happen as he is very much alive and his works don't belong to the public domain... You can start threads about his work tho, like you are doing here :)

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