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
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
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
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
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
Sebastopol resident and Jack London Society Member Iris Jamahl Dunkle has been named the ninth poet laureate of Sonoma County for 2016 and 2017. Dunkle is the author of two full-length collections of… Continue reading
http://www.sonomanews.com/lifestyle/5067902-181/happy-birthday-jack-london The Jack London Foundation will celebrate the 140th birthday of Sonoma County author and rancher Jack London at a birthday banquet on Saturday, Jan. 16. . . . The Foundation has announced… Continue reading
http://www.c-span.org/video/?402673-1/book-discussion-ina-coolbrith Aleta George talked about her book, Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California’s First Poet Laureate, on the poet’s life in California and her influence on future writers. Born in Nauvoo, Illinois, in… Continue reading
View the Trailer: https://jacklondonamericanoriginal.vhx.tv/ Benjamin Goldstein’s Sisyphean Jack London, by Jonah Raskin: https://jacklondonamericanoriginal.vhx.tv/
Jack London’s Mark on Literature, by Jeanne Campbell Reesman
by kbrandt2013Jack London means many things around the globe. He was a pivotal writer at the turn of the century whose literary naturalism and socialism also had important effects on the literatures of… Continue reading →