[nativestudies-l] This Wednesday (1/25) - Reading by Novelist Debra Magpie Earling

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

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. 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 
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu <mailto: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.

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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