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Please join us for a reading by Native American novelist Debra Magpie
Earling on Wednesday, January 25th, at 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street. A reception will follow; this
event is free and open to the public. For additional information about
the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series please contact
Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or nancy.kuhl@yale.edu.<br><br>
Native American novelist Debra Magpie Earling's first novel, Perma Red,
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, Perma Red was chosen by
Barnes and Noble as part of its "Discover Great New Writers"
series. Perma Red has been favorably compared to the work of Louise
Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, 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.<br><br>
For information about and examples of Debra Magpie Earling's work
visit:<br>
<a href="http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/earling_debra_magpie.html" eudora="autourl">
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/earling_debra_magpie.html</a>
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<a href="http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/excerpts/PermaRed.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/excerpts/PermaRed.html<br>
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<a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prairie_schooner/v077/77.2earling.html" eudora="autourl">
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prairie_schooner/v077/77.2earling.html</a>
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<a href="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=039914899x" eudora="autourl">
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=039914899x<br><br>
</a>For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu<br><br>
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