[Yale-readings] Sherman Alexie Reading, September 16, 3 pm, at Battell Chapel

[Nancy Kuhl]

Please join us for a reading by Native American poet, novelist, and 
screenwriter Sherman Alexie on Friday, September 16, 3 pm, at Battell 
Chapel (corner of College and Elm Streets).  This event is free and open to 
the public on a first come, first served basis. Sponsored by the Walter 
McClintock Memorial Fund of the Yale Collection of Western Americana and 
the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and 
Manuscript Library, Davenport College, the Native American Cultural Center 
at Yale University, and the Yale Group for the Study of Native America.

Sherman Alexie is among the most important living Native American writers. 
He is the author of more than 15 books of poetry and fiction, including The 
Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems, Ten Little Indians: Stories, 
Smoke Signals, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and Old 
Shirts & New Skins. Among many other awards, he has received National 
Endowment for the Arts grants, the American Book Award, and the Independent 
Spirit Award for best first screenplay. His most recent book was a finalist 
for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction.

For information about and examples of Sherman Alexie's work visit:
<http://www.fallsapart.com/>http://www.fallsapart.com/
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/alexie/alexie.htm
<http://www.ravenchronicles.org/raven/rvback/issues/0397/Alexie.htm>http://www.ravenchronicles.org//raven/rvback/issues/0397/Alexie.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/395


Related Events at the Beinecke Library

September, 2005: A small exhibition will highlight strengths of the 
Library's rich and ever-growing collections in the areas of Native American 
history, culture, linguistics, and literature; the Library's continuing 
commitment to collection development in these and related fields will be 
evident in the display of important recent acquisitions.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 4 pm: Native American novelist Debra Magpie 
Earling will give a reading at the Beinecke Library, followed by a public 
reception. Debra Magpie Earling's first novel, Perma Red, was among the 
most widely acclaimed novels of 2002. Earling was awarded the Western 
Writers Association Spur Award for Best Novel of the West, the Mountain and 
Plains Bookseller Association Award, a WILLA Literary Award, and the 
American Book Award. Perma Red has been favorably compared to the work of 
Louise Edrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Sherman Alexie. Earling's work 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 additional information about the Yale Collection of American Literature 
Reading Series please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.


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