A couple of other fun details on that front:<div><br></div><div>When he was a community organizer in his mid-twenties (before law school), he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/us/politics/07community.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin">wrote short stories</a> and was apparently on <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/157424">"the brink of"</a> trying to make it as a fiction writer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>He still seems to see himself partly through the lens of writing. This past May, analyzing his own debate performances, he <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/obama-unplugged.aspx">said</a> , "there's a certain ambivalence in my character that I like about myself. It's part of what makes me a good writer, you know? It's not necessarily useful in a presidential campaign."</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Adam P</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Ching-In Chen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chinginchen@gmail.com">chinginchen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">Thought you'd be interested -- a news story about writers & Obama.</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ching-In<br>
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_en_ot/writers_and_obama_1" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_en_ot/writers_and_obama_1</a></div>-- <br><font color="#888888">~~~~~<br>Ching-In Chen<br>
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press forthcoming 2009)<br>
<a href="http://www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp" target="_blank">www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp</a><br><a href="http://www.chinginchen.com" target="_blank">www.chinginchen.com</a><br>
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