From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Aug 26 22:38:56 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9D144155 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:38:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:38:52 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QLd3Z10719 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:39:03 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039252941EE; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A082F29416D for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from endeavors.com ([66.126.120.174]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H1G00CNMHBPZO@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for fork@xent.com; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:52:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Alan Bolcer Subject: UCI Creative Writing To: FoRK Reply-To: gbolcer@endeavors.com Message-Id: <3D6A3E77.E1DE2E71@endeavors.com> Organization: Endeavors Technology, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.5 IP32) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en, pdf Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:43:03 -0700 X-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=7.0 tests=FUDGE_MULTIHOP_RELAY,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,NOSPAM_INC, RCVD_IN_MULTIHOP_DSBL,RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_XM,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.40-cvs X-Spam-Level: More articles that support my fantasy that Irvine is the center of the universe. We've got the corner on electric cars, fuel cells, two types of Nobel winning physics, outside the box computer science, and lot of creative writers. UCI's creative writing department has been in the news a lot over the course of the last decade. Some quotes from the article[1]: "In 1992, Newsweek called UCI's fiction writing workshop 'the hottest writing program in the country.' Now it's exponentially hotter, thanks only in part to Sebold's daring and uncannily timely novel. The novel they are talking about is Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" which is on the way to the top of the NY Times best-sellers list. My uncle used to tease me about UCI (being a USC graduate from '54) that nobody knew who UC Irvine was just two states over. In fact, I used to refer to UCI as one of the lesser known UC schools, and when I went off to college in 1985, my relatives told everyone I was off to Cal State Irvine. I took a class as an undergrad by one of the department's faculty called "the art of writing fiction". If there was ever any two classes that helped contributed to writing my dissertation, it was that one which taught me how to get the writing flowing and my high school typing class which taught me how to type really fast. One of the advantages they cite in the article is that they seem to take a chance on the "not-so-sure" bet, but according to the article, the number of UCI graduates that have gone on to write best sellers and the handful that feed the film industry is creating a viscious cycle that lures more talent which creates the right writing ecosystem, which churns out more success stories which lures more talent. Greg [1] http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2002/8/25/news/uci00825cci1.shtml http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork