Nicolas Berube’s profile of me for Las Presse Canada (both print and online) is now running; the piece is titled “À deux doigts de la rue” (Rough translation: “Two Fingers from the Street”). If you can read French or if you’re simply curious you can find Nic’s article here. I will post the full English [...]
Archive for the ‘Jack London San Francisco Stories’ Category
Journaliste Mauve: À deux doigts de la rue
Posted: November 22, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Foreign Press, Jack London San Francisco Stories, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: A deux doigts de la rue, Charles Bukowski, Jack London, Jack London San Francisco Stories, La Presse, Nicolas Berube, writers, writing
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Alternative Mathematics
Posted: October 31, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Jack London San Francisco Stories, Las Vegas Sun, Sunday Literary SupplementTags: Henry Miller, Jack London, Lester Goran, Matthew Asprey, Roberto Bolano, Simenon, writers, writing
“Popescu began to talk about a Romanian mathematician who lived from 1865 to 1936, a man who spent the last twenty years of his life devoted to the search for some ‘mysterious numbers’ hidden in a part of the vast landscape visible to man, though the numbers themselves were invisible and could live between rocks [...]
Giants Win the NLCS Pennant
Posted: October 23, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Jack London San Francisco Stories, Legends Heroes and MythsTags: Jack Kerouac Alley, Jack London San Francisco Stories, NLCS Pennant, North Beach, San Francisco, San Francisco Giants, Vesuvio, World Series
It was a true nail-biter of a ninth inning, what with Lincecum screwing up his chances as a closer in the eighth by putting runners on first and second but Brian Wilson (aka Blackbeard’s Ghost) pitched a perfect ninth to lead my hometown San Francisco Giants to an NLCS victory and their first World Series [...]
In the Valley of the Moon
Posted: October 19, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Jack London San Francisco StoriesTags: Beauty Ranch, Jack London, Wolf House
Jack London’s San Francisco Stories Now Available
Posted: October 13, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Jack London San Francisco StoriesTags: books, Heinold's Saloon, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Jack London San Francisco Stories, Las Vegas Sun, Matthew Asprey, Rodger Jacobs, San Francisco, Sydney Samizdat Press, Vesuvio Cafe, writers, writing
In retrospect, what amazes and flatters me the most is that editor Matt Asprey’s labor of love — an almost complete collection of Jack London’s writings about San Francisco and the Bay Area environs — began with an essay that I wrote in 2003 for an Irish literary journal, Dead Drunk Dublin, titled Ghost Land, [...]
