Louise Erdrich will receive the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and deliver the keynote at the Kenyon Review Literary Festival in November in Gambier, Ohio.
But that's not all! A $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant is supporting a Big Read in Knox County that's centered around Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine. Elementary and high school curriculum will be part of the community-wide reading and discussion program that will include a film series, writing workshops, and an adaptation of Love Medicine for the theater.
Which all sounds great to me, because Love Medicine is a lovely and strange book with several sections that leap off the page and itch in my mind even now, years after reading it. I do remember feeling that the novel was ... unmade in ways that weren't helpful. But oh, the "Saint Marie" section, and "The Red Convertible"--they are in themselves worth the price of admission.
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