[Yale-readings] Native American Novelist Debra Magpie Earling Reading at Beinecke 1-25, 4pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

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 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

For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at nancy.kuhl at yale.edu

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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