The Pop Matters Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 list is up and running and I selected Michael Scott Moore’s Sweetness and Blood as my entry. You can read my mini-review here and watch the trailer for Mike’s terrific book below.
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Sweetness and Blood
Posted: January 24, 2011 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Best Books 2010, books, globalization, Michael Scott Moore, Popmatters, Sweetness and Blood, writers, writing
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Two Trace Stories Revisited for Momentary Relevance
Posted: January 21, 2011 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop Matters, What We're Reading TonightTags: David Ulin, Ernest Hemingway, fiction, Library of America, Los Angeles fiction, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs, Santa Monica Pier, Terry Mort, The Hemingway Patrols, Writing L.A.
The last few days I have been working on an essay for the Re:Print department of Pop Matters, tentatively titled Ernest Hemingway’s Mystic Communion; the topic, inspired by Terry Mort’s non-fiction work, The Hemingway Patrols, concerned with the celebrated author’s quixotic pursuit of German U-boats off the coastal waters of Cuba during World War II, [...]
Storm Over the Land
Posted: January 11, 2011 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Abraham Lincoln, Americana, Carl Sandburg, Civil War, poetry, political rhetoric, Pop Matters, Storm Over the Land, tragedy in Tucson
No, that header is not a reference to current events but the title of Carl Sandburg’s masterwork, Storm Over the Land, a reworking of his 1940 Pulitzer Prize-winning opus, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. In the first of a series of articles marking my return to Pop Matters after a long absence, I share some [...]
For reasons that are beyond me there has been an uptick in search traffic that is leading folks to this short essay of mine at Pop Matters from September 2009: So I’m at the Albertson’s grocery store on Flamingo Road and Haualapia (Who-All-Uh-Pie) Road in Las Vegas. I’ve gone down the entire list she gave [...]
