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I finished Wild Indians and Other Creatures by Adrian Louis yesterday and loved it. One of our articles this week is our professor’s 1996 interview with Louis for Native Americans and I found this exchange amusing, for absolutely no reason whatsoever:

NA: Who were some of the teachers [at Brown] there that you learned from?
AL: I studied fiction writing under John Hawkes and poetry mainly under Michael Harper and James Schevill. I also worked with R.V. Cassill in fiction.
NA: Did any of them make a strong impression on you in any particular way?
AL: No, not particularly. I guess their writings never really impressed me that much. But what impressed me was that they were writers. They were living writers. I was able to see how they dealt with things and I found that helpful. As far as learning how to write, I don’t think I learned anything while I was at the writing program. Where I learned a lot was studying under people in the regular English department. By studying literature, I learned a lot more than I learned in the writing classes.

I’m also busy reading up on the life of Raymond Roussel, who seems to have been just as quirky and nuts as his writing. Reading about Roussel, his aesthetic and his penchant for writing aggressively unclassifiable work, is fascinating.

Yep, it’s pointless to make any more predictions about the way things are heading in England. Man Ure’s draw (and near loss) to Blackburn means next weekend’s fixture against Chelski is more likely than not the title decider. And Bolton’s win coupled with Fulham’s loss means that the bottom of the table is just as muddled as before.

Fulham have got Man City away, Birmingham City at home, and finish away at Pompey. They can take no less than six points from these games to have a hope of survival. I bet they only get four max and have nothing to play for on the final day. Hope I’m wrong.

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