Sherman Alexie and James Lee Burke Murder Mediocrity in Missoula

By the time I arrived at the 14th annual Humanities Montana Festival of the Book two weeks ago, Sherman Alexie had already set the town on fire.  People kept coming up to me, wide-eyed and short of breath, asking, "Did you hear Sherman last night?"  It was all "Sherman this" and "Sherman that" everywhere I turned in Missoula.  It seemed I had missed the Event of the Year by arriving at the festival the day after the author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Th...