Leslie Marmon Silko writes in the language of the spirit — reading her words as she constructs a portrait of herself for this memoir is not only like being inside her head, it is like eavesdropping on ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature Leslie Marmon Silko in conversation with Molly Gloss from a special event in 2010, at Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall.

NEW YORK (AP) — Leslie Marmon Silko, winner of a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, sees universal reach in her writings about her Laguna Pueblo heritage. “I'm ...

`Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit,” the latest book by Leslie Marmon Silko, a writer from the Laguna Pueblo tribe in central New Mexico, is structured like a spider’s web. It begins with ...

Novelist, essayist, and poet Silko (Gardens in the Dunes) find in her deeply meditative memoir-cum-journal an exquisite harmony between the native ways of her ancestors and the cycle of nature that ...

The Los Angeles Times today announced the finalists and honorees of the 41st annual Book Prizes. Leslie Marmon Silko will be honored with the Robert Kirsch Award, the Book Industry Charitable ...

Gary Snyder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, devoted Zen practitioner, nature writer, and environmental activist. Within his work, Snyder blends his Zen Buddhist vision and practice and earthly ...

For a squeamish, atheistic, arachnophobic Easterner — one who, as a child, slept guarded by a stuffed owl to scare away all the pythons and black widows of Washington, D.C. — reading Leslie Marmon ...

The writing storyteller -- Bears: writing and madness -- Back to the text: "Lullaby" -- "The Battle of Pie Town," or Littlecock's Last Stand -- Dialogic witchery in "Tony's Story" -- Coyote loops: ...

Introduction / Allan Chavkin -- Animals and theme in Ceremony / Peter G. Beidler -- Circular design in Ceremony / Robert C. Bell -- An act of attention: event structure in Ceremony / Elaine Jahner -- ...

Leslie Marmon Silko came to prominence in 1977 at age 29 with her first novel, "Ceremony," a remarkable debut, an extraordinarily popular and spiritually resonating story of a young man of mixed ...