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.
Posts Tagged ‘books’
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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Witness L.A. Pays Witness Again
Posted: November 30, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: books, Celeste Fremon, David Ulin, Joseph Mailander, Las Vegas Sun, Los Angeles Times, New Homeless, Rodger Jacobs, Street Hassle, Witness L.A., writers, writing
A few days ago I updated my friend Celeste Fremon on the latest and she, in kind, updated the rest of the L.A. community who frequent her well-worth-reading web presence. Celeste is a damn fine journalist, scholar, and journalism instructor and is a recognized, passionate advocate for social justice, so her interest in my story should come as no surprise [...]
Journaliste Rouge
Posted: November 18, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: books, Georges Simenon, Katie Euphrat, Kevin Starr, Las Vegas Sun, Maigret, Nicolas Berube, Penelope Fortier, Pulitzer Prize, The Golden Gate, writers, writing
Wednesday with the Las Vegas Sun Yesterday, November 17, I spent the majority of the afternoon being interviewed and taped by video journalist Katie Euphrat of the Las Vegas Sun for the third installment of my New Homeless series for the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the only paper worth reading in the Vegas Valley. Because part two [...]
“The whale lives!”
Posted: October 24, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Legends Heroes and Myths, Sunday Literary SupplementTags: Blackberry Torch, books, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, writers, writing
It was on ths day in 1851 that Herman Melville’s now-iconic novel Moby Dick was first published. How iconic? Just watch this clever commercial, a modern-day retelling of the literary classic through the features and functionality of the BlackBerry® Torch™ phone.
