Tony Hillerman, who died of pulmonary failure in Albuquerque on Oct. 26 at the age of 83, was a man of parts and of words. Whenever and whatever he wrote, you knew you were in safe and clever hands. Whether dealing with breaking news during his days as an editor at The New Mexican, writing a factual article, or penning one of his immensely popular Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries set on the Navajo Reservation, Hillerman was an archetypal storyteller. Like his bardic predecessors, he wove intricate, golden narratives that drew readers in and then urged them along. The tale's path was always paved with technical skill, but Hillerman's ability to choose just the right word or phrase or transition, plus his mastery of believable dialogue that was somehow both direct and subtle, meant tha...
The latest opening at Legends Santa Fe on Lincoln was buzzing, and actor Adam Beach stopped by. He's in town for Cowboys and Aliens, but also has starred in the PBS adapation of Tony Hillerman's novels (as Jim Chee to Wes Studi's Joe Leaphorn) and in Windtalkers. Beach plays Nat Colorado, and works for Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde, played by Harrison Ford. Native Modern: Paper + Glass runs through July 5 and features work by Ira Lujan, Da-Ka-Xeen Mehner, Robert Spooner
Fans of [Tony Hillerman]'s mysteries, featuring Navajo policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, will delight in [Laurance D. Linford]'s obsessively detailed guide to every single mesa, pueblo, trading post and gully mentioned in the books. This second edition adds 45 new locations to the hundreds described in the original. Each entry notes in which book and chapter the location is mentioned, and an appendix explains the subtleties of Navajo pronunciation: jádí, antelope, sounds like "jewel.
By Rick Romancito One of the most appealing aspects of reading one of Tony Hillerman's novels about Dine cops Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn is feeling like you're actually walking alongside them in a real place. The thing is, they were real.
In so many ways, Tony Hillerman lives on. That's good news not only to the ink-stained wretches he was one of and counted as his friends and fellow writers, but also to his legions of readers -- for whom detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are as real as their incomparable surroundings. Hillerman died in the fall of last year -- but the honors for the great novelist of the Four Corners are still coming in.
Tony Hillerman, the old newshound with a keen sense of suspense, has died at age 83. He will be remembered as a writer of mystery novels. His 18 books, set on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, are earthy and wise, punchy and profound. But his true legacy will run a bit deeper. For one thing, he taught a generation of American writers how Anglo authors should write about ethnic characters and culture. Not as "flat characters," as Joel Chandler Harris did in "Song of the South," but as people with complex lives and thoughts -- people who are a mix of all things good and suspect. Hillerman's two detective heroes -- the Hopi cop, Jim Chee, and the Navajo officer, Joe Leaphorn -- share joys and sorrows, fears and foibles. And because of that approach, Hillerman is being touted as a writer wh...
Writers win awards Tony Hillerman's latest Joe Leaphorn-Jim Chee Navajo mystery, The Shape Shifter, has won the Western Writers of America' s Spur Award for best western short novel and Hampton Side's Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, about Kit Carson and the conquest of the West, won a Spur for western nonfiction-historical.
As if Chaco Canyon chicanery, car chases, and corpses weren't enough to deal with, Navajo detectives Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) have their hands full with chindi (Navajo ghosts) in the cinematic adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel A Thief of Time. The film, directed by Chris Eyre and shot in New Mexico, plays at the Taos Picture Show film festival at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 3. Eyre (who hopes to show up in Taos for the screening), spoke by phone about the production. Pasatiempo: What do you see as your job as a filmmaker?
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