[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Our Literary Prez-Elect

[Adam Pelavin]

A couple of other fun details on that front:
When he was a community organizer in his mid-twenties (before law school),
he wrote short stories<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/us/politics/07community.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin>
and
was apparently on "the brink of" <http://www.newsweek.com/id/157424> trying
to make it as a fiction writer.

He still seems to see himself partly through the lens of writing.  This past
May, analyzing his own debate performances, he
said<http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/obama-unplugged.aspx>
,
"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."


Adam P


On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Ching-In Chen <chinginchen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thought you'd be interested -- a news story about writers & Obama.
>
> Ching-In
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_en_ot/writers_and_obama_1
> --
> ~~~~~
> Ching-In Chen
> THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press forthcoming 2009)
> www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp
> www.chinginchen.com
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