BABEL-2024/2025 Season, 2-Tommy Orange

Databases

Gale Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. NOVELny Virtual Tour

Gale Literature: Books and Authors
Reviews and recommendations to assist with book selection.  NOVELny
 

Websites

Penguin Random House Author Page
Link to author page from Penguin Random House

NPR
Native American Author Tommy Orange Feels A 'Burden To Set The Record Straight' from June 2018.

 The Guardian
The article talks about how a visit to a museum in Sweden sparked the idea for his book Wandering Stars, from March 2024.

The Pulitzer Prizes Website
A blurb about Orange's book There There being a Pulitzer finalist in 2019.

Native News Online
'Thanksgiving is a Tradition. It's Also a Lie,' an article written by Tommy Orange about the history surrounding Thanksgiving, from November 2022.

Alta
'Why I Write: Fire Season,' an article written by Tommy Orange from September 2021.

Free Library of Philadelphia Author Event
A recorded discussion with Tommy Orange about his novel Wandering Stars from March 2024.

High Country News
'Fighting and winning with Louise Erdrich,' Tommy Orange interviews Louise Erdrich about her 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning novel, The Night Watchman, family, and the third wave of Indigenous writing, from April 2020.

Orion Magazine
Kathleen Yale interviews Tommy Orange about his novel Wandering Stars, reading habits, how Native history is taught, the ongoing work of recovery, and how to write in the back of an Uber van from March 2024.

Book Page
In 'Tommy Orange on the strangeness of novel-writing,' the author shares the moments from his life that became part of the story of his hit debut, There There, and the song that inspired his sequel's title, Wandering Stars.

World Literature Today
'Resisting the Violence through Writing: A Conversation with Tommy Orange," a portion of an interview conducted during the 2019 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE) in Portland, Oregon, from May 2019. 
 

Community and Local Links

Just Buffalo Literary Center
The premier center for the literary arts in the Buffalo/Niagara region, Just Buffalo promotes community-based literary events throughout the year.

Library Materials

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