Literary super star Sherman Alexie will play Red Square on Graduation Day this year. We can’t wait.

A tough guy to categorize, Alexie’s creative genius declines to fall neatly into a single category. Writer, movie-maker, stand-up comedian, equal opportunity iconoclast; where hasn’t this guy ventured in expressing his take on life, the universe and everything?

Here he is, talking to The Daily Beast about his new book Blasphemy.

I called the book Blasphemy primarily because I’ve been so regularly accused of being blasphemous by white folks and Indians. But they only speak of blasphemy in its most basic terms: disrespect toward religion, toward a philosophy. I think blasphemy is actually more directed toward other human beings, and most often expressed toward those who have lesser power in society. I think human beings are sacred and that all the evil shit each of us does is blasphemous…. White folks talk about finding the sacred in the wilderness, and I suppose it’s there, but I hear the sacred in 3 a.m. traffic and 747s descending and loud music from the house down the block and the ship horns in the foggy night and the whirr, whirr, whirr of crowds. If people are sacred then the most sacred places are the ones where the most people have gathered.

As we mentioned above, we can’t wait.