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style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please join us!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Novelist Debra Magpie Earling (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) will give a reading on <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wednesday, January 25th, at </span><st1:time
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:00 pm</span></st1:time><span
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<pre style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">A reception will follow; this event is free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
additional information about the Yale Collection
of American Literature Reading Series please contact </span><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nancy</span></st2:GivenName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><st2:Sn><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kuhl</span></st2:Sn></st1:PersonName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at 432-2966
or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a>.<br>
<br>
Native American novelist Debra Magpie Earling's first novel, <i>Perma
Red</i>, was
among the most widely acclaimed novels of 2002. Earling was awarded the
American Book Award, the Western Writers Association Spur Award for
Best Novel
of the West, the Mountain and Plains Bookseller Association Award, and
a WILLA
Literary Award. In addition, <i>Perma Red</i> was chosen by </span><st2:Sn><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barnes</span></st2:Sn><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and Noble as part of its "Discover Great New Writers" series. <i>Perma
Red</i> has been favorably compared to the work of </span><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Louise</span></st2:GivenName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><st2:Sn><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Erdrich</span></st2:Sn></st1:PersonName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leslie</span></st2:GivenName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><st2:middlename><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marmon</span></st2:middlename><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><st2:Sn><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silko</span></st2:Sn></st1:PersonName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and Sherman
Alexie. Earling's short fiction has
appeared in Ploughshares, Northern Lights, Northeast Indian Quarterly,
and
anthologies including Circle of Women, Talking Leaves: An Anthology of
Contemporary Native American Short Stories, The Last Best Place: A
Montana
Anthology, and Reinventing the Enemy's Language. In addition to her
creative
work, Magpie Earling, a 1997 MFA recipient from </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cornell</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">University</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">, teaches
Fiction and Native American Studies at the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">University</span></st1:PlaceType><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Montana</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Missoula</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<br>
<br>
For information about and examples of Debra Magpie Earling's work visit:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/earling_debra_magpie.html">http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/earling_debra_magpie.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/excerpts/PermaRed.html">http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/excerpts/PermaRed.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prairie_schooner/v077/77.2earling.html">http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prairie_schooner/v077/77.2earling.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=039914899x">http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=039914899x</a><br>
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<br>
Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966<br>
Fax: 203.432.4047<br style="">
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