Jack London

Movie Review: The Grey

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.28.2012

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Marshall Fine

The Grey is gruesome at times, but it's also involving emotionally, as the puny mortals reveal themselves to each other in the face of something as insurmountable as the frigid Alaskan outback.

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Oakland General Strike: From Radical Past to Radical Present

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 01.04.2012

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Nikolas Kozloff

It is perhaps fitting that it was Oakland, home to radical socialists such as Jack London as well as later black liberation figures like Huey Newton, which pushed the unique weapon of the general strike.

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Hottest Authors: 12 We'd Love To Be Haunted By

Posted 12.31.2011

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Ghosts and books go hand-in-hand. Be it William Shakespeare or Stephen King, writers have long been penning poltergeists. While most literary ghosts a...

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Is It Best to Buy or Borrow Books?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.28.2011

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Dave Astor

Now stepping into the ring: buying books vs. using a library! That bout might never make pay-per-view, but it's a contest often on the minds of avid readers.

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The Most Novels You've Read By an Author

Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011

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Dave Astor

My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.

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The Great Vaka Visit

Danny Kennedy | Posted 10.11.2011

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Danny Kennedy

If you go down to Treasure Island in the next few days you may think you have gone through a wormhole into the past and then landed somewhere in the South Pacific.

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All-time Authors Sometimes Deliver Duds

Dave Astor | Posted 09.30.2011

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Dave Astor

Even great novelists occasionally write a clunker -- sort of a loose cannon in a canon. Often, the literary dud comes at or near the start of an author's career.

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The New Henry Miller Speaks Out: Interview With Eric Miles Williamson, Author of 'Welcome to Oakland'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anis Shivani

What I tell my students is this: Don't read any living American writers. If you're going to read any American writers at all, only read dead ones. That way you can be sure you're not wasting your time.

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Jack London Fans Preparing For Author's 134th Birthday

Oakland Tribune | Annalee Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you are a Jack London fan, you need to meet Carol Brookman. She is the dedicated woman who has been keeping the home fires burning at the landmark ...

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