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Jack London State Historic Park Needs Your Help Like Never Before.
Jack London State Historic Park We Need Your Help Like Never Before. The first place many of us turned during this time of crisis was to our parks. The healing benefits of… Continue reading
Pandemic Fear and Literature: Observations from Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague, by Michele Augusto Riva, Marta Benedetti, and Giancarlo Cesana
The Scarlet Plague, originally published by Jack London in 1912, was one of the first examples of a postapocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature (1). Set in a ravaged and wild America, the… Continue reading
What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About, by Jill Lepore
In the literature of pestilence, the greatest threat isn’t the loss of human life but the loss of what makes us human. Poe’s red death becomes a pandemic in Jack London’s novel “The… Continue reading
Major Update to the Jack London Website at London.sonoma.edu
London.sonoma.edu has a new look and has gone through a major update. In addition to being much easier to navigate, it meets the latest Accessibility requirements for web pages. Many will recall Dave… Continue reading
Wolf man: Why the life of Jack London was as wild as his books, By Simon Ingram
This week a new cinematic adaptation of The Call of the Wild is released, starring Harrison Ford in the role of John Thornton – a Canadian gold hunter who befriends a dog named Buck against the elemental… Continue reading
A Movie Review: The Call of the Wild (2020) A-II (PG), By Dr. Joseph McAleer
Harrison Ford and a dog named Buck appear in the movie The Call of the Wild. https://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2020/the-call-of-the-wild.cfm
Podcast #579: Jack London’s Literary Code, with Earle Labor
Podcast #579: Jack London’s Literary Code The literature of Jack London has long been given the short shrift by scholars. They say he wrote some good dog stories for boys, but beyond that… Continue reading
New Penguin Classics Edition of “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”
https://penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9780140186512 The Call of the Wild, London’s elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog… Continue reading
Call for Papers: Jack London Society Panels at the American Literature Association 31st Annual Conference May 21-24, 2020
Call for Papers Jack London Society American Literature Association 31st Annual Conference May 21-24, 2020 Paper submissions are invited for the Jack London Society panels at the American Literature Association 31th Annual… Continue reading