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From: Gregory Alan Bolcer <gbolcer@endeavors.com>
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Subject: UCI Creative Writing
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:43:03 -0700
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More articles that support my fantasy that Irvine is the
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center of the universe. We've got the corner on electric
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cars, fuel cells, two types of Nobel winning physics,
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outside the box computer science, and lot of creative writers.
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UCI's creative writing department has been in the
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news a lot over the course of the last decade. Some
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quotes from the article[1]:
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"In 1992, Newsweek called UCI's fiction writing workshop
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'the hottest writing program in the country.' Now it's
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exponentially hotter, thanks only in part to Sebold's daring
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and uncannily timely novel.
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The novel they are talking about is Alice Sebold's "The
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Lovely Bones" which is on the way to the top of the
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NY Times best-sellers list. My uncle used to tease me
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about UCI (being a USC graduate from '54) that nobody
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knew who UC Irvine was just two states over. In fact,
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I used to refer to UCI as one of the lesser known UC
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schools, and when I went off to college in 1985, my
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relatives told everyone I was off to Cal State Irvine.
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I took a class as an undergrad by one of the department's
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faculty called "the art of writing fiction". If there
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was ever any two classes that helped contributed to writing
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my dissertation, it was that one which taught me how to
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get the writing flowing and my high school typing class
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which taught me how to type really fast.
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One of the advantages they cite in the article is that they
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seem to take a chance on the "not-so-sure" bet, but according
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to the article, the number of UCI graduates that have gone on
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to write best sellers and the handful that feed the film industry
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is creating a viscious cycle that lures more talent which
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creates the right writing ecosystem, which churns out more
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success stories which lures more talent.
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Greg
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[1] http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2002/8/25/news/uci00825cci1.shtml
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