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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Susan Straight
[mailto:susan.straight@ucr.edu] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 06, 2011 12:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> rrussin@ucr.edu; Bryan G Bradford; Tom Lutz; Michael Jayme; Andrew
Winer<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: save the date! LA event June 12, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Please encourage students to come to this - BOOM is a great
place for them to submit, and it's getting a lot of attention. Grad
students, especially.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Susan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello again Boom editorial board,<br>
I'm writing to give you a heads up that we'll be having a Boom event<br>
on Sunday, June 12 at 2pm at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. The<br>
panel description is below. I hope you can join us for a great<br>
discussion. Reception to follow.<br>
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A more formal invitation will follow, but I just wanted to give<br>
everyone a heads up now.<br>
Thanks,<br>
Kim<br>
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<a href="http://theautry.org/programs/boom-a-journal-of-california">http://theautry.org/programs/boom-a-journal-of-california</a><br>
<br>
Join the conversation about our wonderful and troubled state with the<br>
editors and contributors to the new publication, Boom: A Journal of<br>
California. California is an unprecedented force in the U.S. and<br>
abroad. A grand experiment at the continent's Western edge, it has<br>
served as the harbinger of trends for the nation and the world. As old<br>
solutions, perspectives, and power bases ride off into the sunset,<br>
what will replace them? Boom: A Journal of California, continues in<br>
the state’s tradition of innovation by presenting readers with<br>
original ideas and articles that uphold California as a state of<br>
pioneers.<br>
<br>
Following the reading, Louis Warren will moderate a conversation.<br>
Warren is co-editor of Boom and the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of<br>
Western U.S. History at UC Davis. His most recent book is Buffalo<br>
Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (2005). Professor<br>
Warren's current research focuses on the environmental and social<br>
history of the Ghost Dance of 1890.<br>
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<br>
A co-presentation by The Autry, PEN Center USA, and University of<br>
California Press.<br>
<br>
<br>
About the Boom Host and Presenters:<br>
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Louis Warren is coeditor of Boom and W. Turrentine Jackson Professor<br>
of Western U.S. History at UC Davis. His most recent book is Buffalo<br>
Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (2005). Warren's<br>
current research focuses on the environmental and social history of<br>
the Ghost Dance of 1890.<br>
<br>
Carolyn de la Peña, Boom coeditor, directs the UC Davis Humanities<br>
Institute and is also a professor of American studies at UC Davis. She<br>
is the author of two books, Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial<br>
Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010) and The Body Electric: How<br>
Strange Machines Built The Modern American (2003). She writes<br>
regularly on the relationship between technology, consumption, and<br>
health in the United States.<br>
<br>
Lynell George is a journalist/essayist based in Los Angeles and an<br>
assistant professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. She is<br>
a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly.<br>
George is the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the<br>
City of Angels and has contributed to various books and essay<br>
collections. She is a member of PEN/West and is currently part of the<br>
Ms Magazine Blog Team. She is contributing an article on the<br>
photography of Kevin McCollister for the second issue of Boom.<br>
<br>
Mariam Lam is an associate professor of comparative literature and<br>
Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Riverside,<br>
and coeditor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. She is the author<br>
of the forthcoming book Not Coming to Terms: Việt Nam, Archival<br>
Trauma, and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press). She is also an<br>
editorial board member of Boom.<br>
<br>
Susan Straight is a professor of creative writing at the University of<br>
California, Riverside. Her most recent book is Take One Candle Light a<br>
Room (2010). She has written six other critically acclaimed novels,<br>
including Highwire Moon (2002), which won the Gold Medal for Fiction<br>
from the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club, and A Million<br>
Nightingales (2007), which won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.<br>
Straight sets all of her novels in the fictional town of Rio Seco,<br>
California, a loose parallel to her hometown, Riverside. She has also<br>
written essays on California and culture for Harper’s, the New York<br>
Times, and the Nation. She is the inaugural columnist for Boom and a<br>
member of the editorial board.<o:p></o:p></p>
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