The first news to report is that I’m about to order a new wheelchair ramp from The Scooter Store thanks to unsolicited and totally appreciated financial contributions from two friends who shall remain anonymous. Secondly, after a long absence my Deconstruction Zone column at Pop Matters is back: The latest unnecessary literary biography to come [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Deconstruction Zone’
Lonelyhearts
Posted: June 11, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: book reviews, books, Deconstruction Zone, Eileen McKenney, Lonelyhearts, Marion Meade, Nathanael West, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs, writers, writing
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Some Praise for Mr. Shannon
Posted: May 21, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Pop MattersTags: Deconstruction Zone, John Shannon, Mexico in literature, Pop Matters, T. Jefferson Parker, writers, writing
I’m currently reading T. Jefferson Parker’s new novel, Iron River, for a follow-up to my October 2009 Deconstruction Zone column about Mexico in literature (The Name of This Land is Hell: Mexico in Literature). This evening, while doing a little background research on Parker, I came across a Barnes and Noble interview with Parker; he was asked to [...]
Orson Welles: A Man of a Certain Ego
Posted: February 4, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Deconstruction Zone, Julius Caesar, Me and Orson Welles, Orson Welles, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs
My January Deconstruction Zone column for Pop Matters, Orson Welles: A Man of a Certain Ego, is up and running: The creative projects next on the young wunderkind’s slate – the 1937 Mercury Theater production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the 1938 CBS radio production of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, a production [...]
Mid-January Update
Posted: January 18, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Deconstruction Zone, Orson Welles, Pop Matters, writers, writing
So … … this weekend I finished writing the introduction to the Pop Matters list of the Best of Fiction 2009. An advance look: If the 24 works of fiction contained in this annual list are examined for their reflection of the modern and postmodern human and social realm, the face in the mirror is [...]
quam pravus can vos exsisto
Posted: January 12, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: 2666, Ciudad Juarez, Deconstruction Zone, Mexican cartels, Pop Matters, Roberto Bolano
Darker shades of the Mexican drug cartel wars than even Roberto Bolano could possibly have envisioned in 2666. From the AP on the latest violence in Ciudad Juarez: On Thursday, police in the northern city of Los Mochis, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, found the dismembered body of a man whose face had been [...]
