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<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
all, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Below
please find a schedule of four upcoming presentations by distinguished
non-fiction writers who are candidates for a new faculty position in Creative
Writing.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>These
presentations are in addition to Writers Week. I encourage you to catch one or
more of the Writers Week presentations as well. Among other speakers, Harvey
Pekar will do a reading on February 17 at 7:30 PM in University Theater.
Francisco Aragon and Kimiko Hahn will be reading on February 18 at 3:00 PM and
3:30 PM respectively at the Riverside Public Library.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Graduate students please note: Any and all of these presentations will
count for 280 credit.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>All my
best,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Steve
Axelrod</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Professor of English</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Director of Graduate Studies</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=390451501-03022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN><I><BR>Rigoberto Gonzalez</I> of the University of Illinois
(and a UCR creative writing alumnus, currently completing a biography of
the late UCR Chancellor Tomas Rivera) will speak 11 am-noon Thursday, Feb.
2, in HMNSS 1614. His memoir, <I>Butterfly Boy, </I>will be
published this year by the University of Wisconsin Press. He was a Guggenheim
Fellow in 2000 and a CHASS commencement keynote speaker this past year (during
the earthquake!).<BR><BR><I>Tom Lutz</I>, acting director of the MFA program at
Cal Arts and a University of Iowa professor, is the author of, among others,
<I>Crying: The Natural & Cultural HIstory of Tears </I>(1999); <I>American
Nervousness, 1993: An Anecdotal HIstory; </I>and forthcoming this spring from
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, <I>Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers,
Slackers & Bums. </I>Other essays and nonfiction work have appeared in
<I>Publishers Weekly, The Kirkus Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The
Economist, The Washington Post</I> and <I>The American Scholar. </I>He
speaks 10-11 am Thursday, Feb. 9 in HMNSS 1500.<BR><BR><I>David Bradley</I> of
the University of Oregon has published two novels, <I>South Street</I> and the
widely acclaimed <I>The Chaneysville Incident </I>(which won among other awards
a PEN/Faulkner award). A Guggenheim fellow, Bradley has published memoirs
and other nonfiction work in <I>Esquire, The Village Voice, The New York
Times Magazine, The Nation, Redbook, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine,
The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times</I> and <I>The Southern Review.
</I>Bradley speaks 10-11 am Wednesday, Feb. 22 in HMNSS 1500.<BR><BR><I>Michael
Stephens, </I>will be joining us 10-11 am Thursday, March 2, also in HMNSS
1500. Stephens currently directs the M.A. in Creative Writing at Kingston
University in Leeds, England, where he also serves as a Senior Lecturer and
Writer-in-Residence. An American citizen, he holds a MFA in Creative
Writing from Yale University, and a BA and MA in Creative Writing and English
from the City University of New York. He is currently completing his PhD
at the University of Essex in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theater
Studies. Professor Stephen has also taught at the University of London
(Queen Mary), Princeton University, Emerson College, Columbia University, New
York University, and Fordham University. He has published 16 books,
including six novels, five works of nonfiction, five books of poetry and
translation, as well as two plays. Two of his novels are <I>The Brooklyn
Book of the Dead</I> (Dalky Archive, 1994) and <I>Season at Coole</I> (Dutton,
1972), and his books of nonfiction include, <I>Lost in</I> <I>Seoul </I>(Random
House, 1990), <I>Green Dreams: Essays under the Influence of the Irish</I>
(University of Georgia Press, 1994), which was the winner of the 1994 AWP Award
in Nonfiction, and <I>Where the Sky Ends: A Memoir of Alcohol and Family
</I>(Hazeldon, 1999). <BR><BR>For the Writers Week schedule, see <A
href="http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers_week2006.pdf"
eudora="autourl">http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers_week2006.pdf</A>
. Nonfiction Day is Wednesday, Feb. 15th, and a screening of the
Harvey Pekar biopic, <I>American Splendor, </I>will be announced.<BR><BR><SPAN
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