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Episode 037: Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity by Sherman Alexie
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Episode 037: Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity by Sherman Alexie

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.

Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re talking to Sherman Alexie about his short story Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity published at The Metropolitan Review!

The Metropolitan Review
Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity
In Seattle, at approximately 2:55 a.m., nearly twenty years ago, when I was sixteen, I drove too fast into a four-way intersection while talking on my mobile phone, turned too wide on a left, rode up onto the sidewalk, and crashed into a pedestrian who’d been waiting for the light to change. She died…
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Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and filmmaker. He’s published two dozen books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature and was listed by the American Library Association as the Most Banned and Challenged Book from 2010 to 2019. He also won the PEN-Faulkner and PEN-Malamud Awards. He wrote and co-produced Smoke Signals, the feature film that won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy and is preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry).

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