Category Archive: Jack London in the News

Jack London Classic Film Fest (November 3-5, Sonoma Community Center)

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Jack London State Historic Park and the Sonoma Community Center will mark their mutual 2016 Centennial Celebrations with the presentation of the Jack London Classic Film Fest. The festival will feature screenings of… Continue reading

London in the News: Jack London Special Section in the Press-Democrat

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Via Susan Nuernberg: From one of several articles on the Jack London Centennial at http://www.pressdemocrat.com/topics/?t=pd-jack_london_centennial London’s first visit was to Camp Reverie, a summer-long gathering of Bay Area intellectuals located on the Russian… Continue reading

Jack London Panel at Oakland Book Festival (5.22.16)

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Oakland Book Festival 2016 Sunday May 22 Oakland City Hall THE 100 YEAR CALL OF THE WILD Presented by Litquake Hearing Room 3: 12:15—1:30pm Jack London died 100 years ago. To commemorate the… Continue reading

Shakespeare at 400, Jack London at 100: Genius Lives, by Jonah Raskin

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonah-raskin/shakespeare-at-400-jack-l_b_9774854.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications    In William Shakespeare’s comedy, “As You Like It, a traveler named Jaques waxes poetical in lines that have achieved literary immortality.    “All the world’s a stage,” he says. “And all… Continue reading

The Overlooked Legacy of Charmian London

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SUSAN NUERNBERG AND IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE SPECIAL TO THE INDEX-TRIBUNE Charmian Kittredge London, Jack London’s second wife, is often dismissed as his typist, or worse, as a frivolous airhead who hindered her famous… Continue reading

Jack London in the News: Valley of the Moon Magazine

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Iris Dunkle on the Jack London listserv provided a link to the January 2016 issue of Valley of the Moon Magazine, with many articles on and pictures of London, including a chronology of his life, London… Continue reading

Why Jack London Still Matters

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By Cecelia Tichi / Special to The Sonoma Valley Sun https://jacklondonsociety.org/2016/02/07/why-jack-london-still-matters Jack London once again summons us in the 21st century, this time for the uncanny coincidence of this deja-vu moment that links his… Continue reading

Jack London Legacy Celebration 2016 Website

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http://jacklondon.ouroakland.net/ This site is a central point to find out about events in the Bay Area in 2016 celebrating the legacy of author Jack London. 2016 is the 140th anniversary of London’s birth and… Continue reading

Jack London’s Photographs at the Huntington Library

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Originally posted on Donna M. Campbell:
Jay Williams, author of Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902,  recently announced to the Jack London listserv that the Huntington Library is in the process of…

New Jack London Documentary

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View the Trailer: https://jacklondonamericanoriginal.vhx.tv/ Benjamin Goldstein’s Sisyphean Jack London, by Jonah Raskin: https://jacklondonamericanoriginal.vhx.tv/