<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></div></blockquote><div>FIRST (though most of you have seen it by now: Juan Felipe Herrera's review in this a.m.'s NY Times Book Review.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Burt2-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=55523f1bbe9c4bad&ex=1218859200&emc=eta1">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Burt2-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=55523f1bbe9c4bad&ex=1218859200&emc=eta1</a></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>NEXT: Word that Chris Abani (along with Junot Diaz and Daniel Alarcon and a couple of others) is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction: </div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/arts/09arts-PRIZEFINALIS_BRF.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/arts/09arts-PRIZEFINALIS_BRF.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>FINALLY, our alumnus & former lectuer Alex Espinoza has a lovely review of Stephanie Elizondo Griest's <i>Mexican Enough</i> in this a.m.'s LA Times:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/08/book-review-mex.html">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/08/book-review-mex.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cwgrad-announcements mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu">Cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwgrad-announcements">http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwgrad-announcements</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>