Jack London: Sailor, By Keith Newlin
By most accounts, the acclaimed and charismatic writer lived life — and sailed — impetuously and on the edge. http://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/december/jack-london-sailor.asp
Category Archive: Jack London in the News
JL in the News: Rarely Seen Photographs
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/rarely-seen-photos-by-jack-london/ Update: Jack London. The Paths Men Take’ published by Contrasto is selected by The Los Angeles Times for their Holiday books Gift Guide. Here the link: http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-holiday-books-guide-nonfiction-20161201-htmlstory.html Rarely Seen Photos by Jack London By Jonathan… Continue reading
JL in the News: Forever wild: Celebrating Jack London 100 years after his death
Photo: PhotoQuest / Getty Images, Getty Images By Jonah Raskin Jack London in 1916, the year he died. Jack London is probably best remembered for “The Call of the Wild,” his epic dog… Continue reading
JL in the News: Events in NYC
Join us in commemorating the centennial of Jack London’s death and celebrating his legacy. Tuesday – November 22, 2016 Time: 1:30 – 5:30 p.m. The Mary Rodgers Room – 7th Floor of The Dramatists… Continue reading
Sonoma film festival celebrates Jack London, by SUSAN NUERNBERG
Three Hollywood adaptations of Jack London’s chart-topping adventure novels will find their way to the silver screen again as part of a Jack London Classic Film Fest, held Nov. 3-5 in Sonoma. Link:… Continue reading
JL in the News: The Guardian on Jack London
“Reading group: Which Jack London book should we read in November?” by Sam Jordison https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/01/reading-group-which-jack-london-book-should-we-read-in-november?CMP=share_btn_tw Snippets (read the rest at the link): But he didn’t write a book called On the Road. In… Continue reading
C-Span Video of Life and Legacy of Jack London Panel at Stanford
Life and Legacy of Jack London Scholars talked about the life and legacy of novelist, journalist, photographer, and social activist Jack London. They showed a selection of London’s photojournalism and spoke how the… Continue reading
Jack London, The Beatles, and Italy: An Interview with Davide Sapienza by Jonah Raskin
Jeanne Reesman, Earle Labor, and Davide Sapienza Davide Sapineza ought to be no stranger to American fans and readers of Jack London’s work. The foremost Italian authority on London – though he’s too… Continue reading
JL in the News: Jack London, a century on
by Donna Campbellhttp://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jack-london-century/ Jack London, a century on Yesterday, as Dennis Duncan has noted, was the seventieth anniversary of a controversial book – J’irai cracher sur vos tombes (I Shall Spit on Your Graves) by… Continue reading →