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Bankston, Carl L., III. "Weaving the Line of the Spirit." The Bloomsbury Review 12, No. 6 (September 1992): 7.

Discusses characterization in The Business of Fancydancing, finding that Alexie's poetry appears "unexpectedly" from the themes of everyday life.

Lambert, Pam. Review of Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie. People Weekly 43, No. 18 (8 May 1995): 35.

Favorable assessment of Reservation Blues, praising the way Alexie "explores the place where dreams and down-and-dirty reality collide."

Review of Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie. Publishers Weekly 242, No. 18 (1 May 1995): 42-3.

Laudatory assessment of Reservation Blues, stating that the novel is "hilarious but poignant" and "filled with enchantments yet dead-on accurate with regard to modern reservation life."

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Alex Kuo (essay date 1992)
   2. Publishers Weekly (review date 1 February 1993)
   3. The New Yorker (essay date 10 May 1993)
   4. Sybil S. Steinberg (review date 19 July 1993)
   5. Andrea-Bess Baxter (review date August 1993)
   6. Brian Schneider (review date Fall 1993)
   7. Reynolds Price (review date 17 October 1993)
   8. Anne Goodwin Sides (review date 17 October 1993)
   9. Publishers Weekly (review date 8 November 1993)
   10. Frank Allen (review date 15 November 1993)
   11. Joseph Bruchac (review date Winter 1994)
   12. Alan R. Velie (review date Spring 1994)
   13. James Beschta (review date May 1994)
   14. Carl L. Bankston III (review date May-June 1994)
   15. Andrea-Bess Baxter (review date November 1994)
   16. Leslie Marmon Silko (review date 12 June 1995)
   17. Frederick Busch (review date 16 July 1995)
   18. Abigail Davis (review date July-August 1995)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Sherman Alexie