Sherman Alexie
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Oct 30, 2026
Brian McDonaldHOST
All this to get back to not seeing yourself represented is a thing that when people don't understand, it's such a huge thing.
Brian McDonaldHOST
Sherman Alexie talked about this too, where he had never seen a poem by a Native American ever.
Brian McDonaldHOST
And it opened up a whole world for him.
Brian McDonaldHOST
It's like, oh, that's possible.
Luke BurbankHOST
is still happening.
Luke BurbankHOST
I don't think Sherman Alexie and Jess Walter are doing whatever their thing was.
Luke BurbankHOST
I don't think so.
Luke BurbankHOST
I
Katie DozierHOST
empathy for the situation, right? I definitely do.
Katie DozierHOST
But I think I want to talk about specifically the Sherman Alexie controversy in 2015, which I think you're the best person to talk about because this is one of the biggest ones within Best American Poetry.
Timothy GreenHOST
Yeah, well, if you type in Best American Poetry Scandal, this is the one that comes up.
Timothy GreenHOST
And in 2015, he chose a poem by a white poet who submitted it under a Chinese pen name.
Katie DozierHOST
It does leave one to wonder if they actually read the notes before they put them in the back.
Katie DozierHOST
Like they didn't know they were like dropping a bomb in there.
Timothy GreenHOST
No, Sherman Alexie, you know, he...
Katie DozierHOST
Did he know before it was published?
Nora KenworthyHOST
Yeah.
Nora KenworthyHOST
I think one of the other examples that you talk about in the book is the challenge of your decision to keep an essay by Sherman Alexie in this edition.
Nora KenworthyHOST
Sherman Alexie, who had a number of accusations of sexual harassment and sexual exploitation against him.
Nora KenworthyHOST
I guess I want to ask specifically, like, what message do you hope that that choice of retention will give to readers about harm and failings and the wounded healers among us and redemption in those we look up to? Because this is a conversation we keep having as a society around cancellation.
Paul LoebGUEST
The essay was something...
Dan OppenheimerHOST
So I'm thinking of my fashion episodes.
Dan OppenheimerHOST
When I talk to Maggie Bullock, about her book on J.Crew when I talked to Avery Truffleman, about her series of podcast episodes on Ivy Style, and to Derek Guy on men's fashion, my conversation with Sherman Alexie on our shared appreciation for genre television, my talk with Matt Dinaman on his Dungeon Crawler Carl fantasy sci-fi series, and perhaps most gloriously, my special two-part episode on that great goddess of middle-brow culture NPRs, Terry Gross, For Willard and for me, too, there's something genuinely significant and interesting in the ways we connect with our fellow Americans via these sometimes genuinely quite brilliant but often quite frivolous cultural products.
Dan OppenheimerHOST
So Willard and I talk about Legally Blonde, which is one of his favorite movies, also a favorite of my daughter Jolie.
Dan OppenheimerHOST
We talk about the comedies of Judd Apatow, which he and I both dig.
Lewis MillhollandGUEST
Yeah, I do want to mention that, but also just some other things that we do with Sun Valley in general.
Lewis MillhollandGUEST
We go to a Hemingway seminar every fall where they've had some cool speakers like Sherman Alexie come out.
Lewis MillhollandGUEST
And then we go and get to come to all the panels.
Lewis MillhollandGUEST
But we also lead discussion groups for local Ketchumites about the book that everyone's read for the conference.
TadHOST
I get to, to reach out to Jeremy Whitley and say, "Hey, let's talk." I get to...
TadHOST
It was Sherman Alexie two nights ago.
TadHOST
Not only talking to him, but we were book clubbing something.
TadHOST
We weren't even talking about his work.
Matika WilburHOST
I had access to Native literature because my mom had a Native art gallery when I was growing up.
Matika WilburHOST
But a lot of it was, like, Black Elk Speaks or, like, Sherman Alexie or, like, Kent Nurburn, like, Neither Wolf Nor Dog or, like, you know, a lot of it was, like, spiritual warrior type stuff.
Matika WilburHOST
Yeah.
Matika WilburHOST
And it was all like for white people.
Kinsale DrakeGUEST
Yeah.
Kinsale DrakeGUEST
That's the native Renaissance is to any author that had visibility, like from the sixties onwards, it was totally with white people in mind, like the mark, the marketability.
Kinsale DrakeGUEST
It's also why Sherman Alexie like dominated the market in the early two thousands, late nineties was like, he was just the guy, right? Like he was the one native author that
Lily PainterGUEST
white people just loved.
Brian WoodHOST
Um, but I always find something very tender and, uh, moving when someone can juxtapose comedy and tragedy.
Brian WoodHOST
Um, and I'm sure I've said it before, I, I always like to, to, to teach it, there's a story by, um, Sherman Alexie about a little kid in an Indian or a veteran hospital for, and on the, on the reservation, and the healthcare is awful and it's terrible, and everybody's in there dying.
Brian WoodHOST
And, um, he thinks he finds a magic wand that can maybe heal people, but it's a giant dildo.
Chad PostHOST
[laughs]
TadHOST
Welcome back to 22 Panels.
TadHOST
I'm joined again by Sherman Alexie, who most people know for his poetry.
TadHOST
I really liked your 60 poem.
Sherman AlexieGUEST
Oh, thank you.
TadHOST
about your aches and pains.
TadHOST
Yeah.
Sherman AlexieGUEST
So, yes, so for those of you who want to know, it's on my sub stack, Sherman Alexie sub stack, and the poem is called 60.
Sherman AlexieGUEST
I turned 60 last Wednesday, and it's about the indignities of getting older and your body falling apart.
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