This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jack London San Francisco Stories’
2010: Year in Review
Posted: December 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste Colore, Literary Guide to Christmas, Pop Matters, Sunday Literary SupplementTags: Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan, Borders Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Jack London San Francisco Stories, John Updike, Joseph Mailander, La Presse, Las Vegas Sun, Marion Meade, Matthew Asprey, Me and Orson Welles, Nathanael West, Nicolas Berube, Orson Welles, Penelope Fortier, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs, Tom Gorman, writers, writing
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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meet and Greet
Posted: October 22, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Foreign Press, Las Vegas SunTags: Blogging L.A., Georges Simenon, Greet De Keyser, Jack London San Francisco Stories, Las Vegas Sun, Maigret, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless, VRT, Will Campbell, writers, writing
Greet De Keyser is a veteran radio and television report for Dutch and Belgian broadcasters; in a career that has spanned over 20 years, she has covered news events in South Africa, Ethiopia, Algeria, Iraq, Zaire, and Rwanda. She has covered two U.S. elections, including the controversial recount in 2000, managed to snare two [...]
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, [...]
