<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hooray for Tod!!!!<p>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry</p><p><hr size=2 width=100% align=center tabindex=-1><b>From</b>: D Charles Whitney <chuck.whitney@ucr.edu><br><b>Date</b>: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:07:13 -0700<br><b>To</b>: CRWT Gradlist<cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu>; <tom.lutz@ucr.edu>; Juan_Felipe_Herrera<juan.herrera@ucr.edu>; Goldberry Long<goldl@ucr.edu>; Stephanie Hammer<hamm@ucr.edu>; <jkronen@citrus.ucr.edu>; Gayle Brandeis<gaylebrandeis@gmail.com>; Tori Patterson<v.a.patterson@gmail.com>; Claire Hoffman<claire.hoffman@gmail.com>; Straight-Susan<gailarose@yahoo.com>; <dyates@citrus.ucr.edu>; Maurya_Simon<Maurya.Simon@ucr.edu>; Mike Davis<mdavis@ucr.edu>; Alba Cruz Hacker<albacruzhacker@yahoo.com>; <christopher.buckley@ucr.edu>; cw Whitney<Chuck.Whitney@ucr.edu>; Josh Hardina<jhardina@gmail.com>; Reza Aslan<reza.aslan@ucr.edu>; Abani<Chris.Abani@ucr.edu>; Yvonne_Howard<yvonneh@ucr.edu>; Andrew Winer<andrew.winer@ucr.edu>; Michael Jayme<michael.jayme@ucr.edu>; Laila Lalami<laila.lalami@ucr.edu><br><b>Subject</b>: Fwd: a bit of good news<br></font></p>Congratulations, Tod!<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><b><i>D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair</i></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Department of Creative Writing, 4126 INTS</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">U of California, Riverside CA 92506</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619</span></font></div></div></div></span> </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Tod Goldberg" <<a href="mailto:goldberg@ucr.edu">goldberg@ucr.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 3, 2009 10:41:42 PM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:chuck.whitney@ucr.edu">chuck.whitney@ucr.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>a bit of good news</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div> <div> <!-- Converted from text/plain format --> <br><p><font size="2">Hi Chuck,<br> <br> Wanted to forward on a little bit of good news: My story "Mitzvah" (which I read at Writers Week two years ago) has been named a Distinguished Story of 2008 in the Best American Mystery Stories 2009. It first appeared in the anthology Las Vegas Noir and is in my new collection Other Resort Cities, which comes out in October. <br> <br> Hope your summer is going well -- it will be fall soon enough...<br> <br> Tod</font> </p> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>