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May.10.2012
I'm a lucky one. Dr. Geary Hobson, Dr. Jonathan Stalling, and Dr. Alan Velie were fantastic committee members and gave me tremendous feedback. I appreciated thier energy and time spent on reviewing my thesis. The defense itself went well. I stumbled and stammered on a couple...
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May.06.2011
Geary Hobson is a great poet and a great fiction writer. Now I know him as a great instructor. He has contributed a lot to the Native Literature field, and he adds a lot to the University of Oklahoma's faculty. I took Native Poetry 5353 with Geary Hobson this semester, and I am so humbled to...
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Mar.04.2009
As I had posted on an earlier blog, I read at the NALS this year along with a handful of IAIA students, and I have to say the group of us did very good. We recieved a lot of praise after the reading and we sold a lot of chapbooks of our work at the symposium, as well. I read an excerpt of a short...
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Feb.01.2009
Just wanted to invite everyone to the NALS, where I will be reading on the 26th of Feb. The event is three days long, the 26th, 27th, and 28th, and it will cover all hot topics in the Native American Literature world. How many topics could that be? You'll have to attend the event and find out (...
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Jan.24.2009
Fiction is a place where we can find one method of delivery and then drive that method into the ground. I am working on different forms of omniscient, and I am open to any and all reading suggestions, in short story. I'm reading many short stories right now. Today I opend up and read the first...
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Jan.23.2009
I attended the reading by Junot Diaz at the Lensic this Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Junot was funny and charming. He engaged a group of high school kids sitting in the front rows. He appeared to be a down-to-earth guy and I appreciated that. He read and talked to the audience for around...
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Jan.19.2009
I finished reading Dr. Denis Leary's "A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy, and Stupid" entitled: Why We Suck. If you like crude humor with clever whit and tireless ranting, then you will love this book, as I did. Leary gives readers the print version of his standup routines. ...
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Jan.06.2009
The internal drama of waiting. I woke up this morning and I thought about a couple of first draft stories I wrote in Decemeber. I have some concepts for a couple more, but the stories aren't fully fleshed out in my mind, not enough for me to put them down on paper yet. So I revise. I work on...
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Dec.29.2008
I finished The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz this morning, which won the Pulitzer Prize this year. Diaz created a dangerous and interesting world around a pitful but inspiriing character, Oscar Wao. This novel is about the nerdy and awkward expedition of Oscar's life, and his...
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Dec.28.2008
I just finished reading Memories of My Meloncholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize winner and genius. This particular novella had great, classic Marquezian moments, lines that sang like a Bach concerto, and situations that both enlightened and creeped you out. The story is about...
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We are a collective of autonomous family groups helping each other survive these current paracolonial conditions.”
—Oscar Hokeah
About Oscar
Oscar Hokeah is a biracial author from Lawton and Tahlequah, Oklahoma. His mother is half Kiowa and half Cherokee, and his father immigrated from Chihuahua, Mexico. As an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, with Cherokee and Hispanic ancestry,...
Oscar’s Favorite Books
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Too Much Happiness