Read Tim Yu's firsthand account of Tammy Duckworth's campaign in Illinois. People missed out by not electing her.

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Daniel Chacon, my good friend and the Distinguished Visiting Fiction Writer at Fresno State (visiting from the University of Texas, El Paso), will read at the Alice Peters Auditorium on the Fresno State campus on Thursday, November 16. at 7:00 p.m.

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Thank you to Gayle Mak at Heyday Books. Heyday is publishing a new edition of the popular anthology Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley, and they have accepted one of my poems, "In the Tower District," for inclusion.

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I am currently re-reading & re-enjoying: Drawing the Line, by Lawson Fusao Inada.