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NATIVE VOICES RISING

Memoir, meet novel; writers Mailhot and Orange talk shop

Two years after earning their MFAs from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Tommy Orange and Terese Marie Mailhot have become significant emerging voices in American literature. Orange made a splash with a story in the New Yorker, excerpted from There There (June), his novel

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