[CW-Grad] FW: save the date! LA event June 12, 2011

[Bryan G Bradford]

From: Susan Straight [mailto:susan.straight at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 12:52 PM
To: rrussin at ucr.edu; Bryan G Bradford; Tom Lutz; Michael Jayme; Andrew Winer
Subject: Fwd: save the date! LA event June 12, 2011

 

Dear All,

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.

Susan

 

 

Hello again Boom editorial board,
I'm writing to give you a heads up that we'll be having a Boom event
on Sunday, June 12 at 2pm at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. The
panel description is below. I hope you can join us for a great
discussion. Reception to follow.

A more formal invitation will follow, but I just wanted to give
everyone a heads up now.
Thanks,
Kim

http://theautry.org/programs/boom-a-journal-of-california

Join the conversation about our wonderful and troubled state with the
editors and contributors to the new publication, Boom: A Journal of
California. California is an unprecedented force in the U.S. and
abroad. A grand experiment at the continent's Western edge, it has
served as the harbinger of trends for the nation and the world. As old
solutions, perspectives, and power bases ride off into the sunset,
what will replace them? Boom: A Journal of California, continues in
the state’s tradition of innovation by presenting readers with
original ideas and articles that uphold California as a state of
pioneers.

Following the reading, Louis Warren will moderate a conversation.
Warren is co-editor of Boom and the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of
Western U.S. History at UC Davis. His most recent book is Buffalo
Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (2005). Professor
Warren's current research focuses on the environmental and social
history of the Ghost Dance of 1890.


A co-presentation by The Autry, PEN Center USA, and University of
California Press.


About the Boom Host and Presenters:

Louis Warren is coeditor of Boom and W. Turrentine Jackson Professor
of Western U.S. History at UC Davis. His most recent book is Buffalo
Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (2005). Warren's
current research focuses on the environmental and social history of
the Ghost Dance of 1890.

Carolyn de la Peña, Boom coeditor, directs the UC Davis Humanities
Institute and is also a professor of American studies at UC Davis. She
is the author of two books, Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial
Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010) and The Body Electric: How
Strange Machines Built The Modern American (2003). She writes
regularly on the relationship between technology, consumption, and
health in the United States.

Lynell George is a journalist/essayist based in Los Angeles and an
assistant professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. She is
a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly.
George is the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the
City of Angels and has contributed to various books and essay
collections. She is a member of PEN/West and is currently part of the
Ms Magazine Blog Team. She is contributing an article on the
photography of Kevin McCollister for the second issue of Boom.

Mariam Lam is an associate professor of comparative literature and
Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Riverside,
and coeditor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. She is the author
of the forthcoming book Not Coming to Terms: Việt Nam, Archival
Trauma, and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press). She is also an
editorial board member of Boom.

Susan Straight is a professor of creative writing at the University of
California, Riverside. Her most recent book is Take One Candle Light a
Room (2010). She has written six other critically acclaimed novels,
including Highwire Moon (2002), which won the Gold Medal for Fiction
from the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club, and A Million
Nightingales (2007), which won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
Straight sets all of her novels in the fictional town of Rio Seco,
California, a loose parallel to her hometown, Riverside. She has also
written essays on California and culture for Harper’s, the New York
Times, and the Nation. She is the inaugural columnist for Boom and a
member of the editorial board.

 

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