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Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”

Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”

ByDoug Cornett

Alexie’s short story is first published in the New Yorker on April 21. The story’s protagonist is Jackson Jackson, a member of the Spokane tribe and a homeless alcoholic, who tracks his twenty-four-hour mission to redeem his grandmother’s stolen powwow regalia from a Seattle pawn shop.

Shelf Aware Machines

Shelf Aware Machines

ByIan Denning

When I was a kid, I loved the Barnes & Noble in Seattle’s University Village. It was one of Barnes & Noble’s flagship stores, at that time the largest bookstore I’d ever seen: forty-six thousand square feet over two floors. I spent hours in its expansive science fiction and fantasy section, ogling the covers and…