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January 19, 2005: Michael Jayme (Jaime-Becerra), Professor in the Creative Writing Department, will read from his critically-acclaimed debut collection of inter-related short stories, Every Night Is Ladies’ Night (RAYO, 2004). A native of El Monte, California, Professor Jayme studied writing first as an undergraduate at UC Riverside, and then at UC Irvine’s Master of Fine Arts in Fiction program. The collection of ten short stories was praised by critic Anne Stephenson in USA Today as "a love letter to the city in which he was raised, a place where luck is in short supply but hope survives, as quiet and resilient as the sunrise."