[nativestudies-l] Native American Novelist Debra Magpie Earling Reading at Beinecke 1/25, 4pm

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Please join us!

 

Novelist Debra Magpie Earling (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) will give a reading 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 at yale.edu.

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. In 
addition to her creative work, Magpie Earling, a 1997 MFA recipient from 
Cornell University, teaches Fiction and Native American Studies at the 
University of Montana, Missoula.

For information about and examples of Debra Magpie Earling's work visit:
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/earling_debra_magpie.html
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/excerpts/PermaRed.html
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prairie_schooner/v077/77.2earling.html
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=039914899x

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Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047

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