“The Call of the Wild” as a New Movie
My wife got us tickets to a preview screening last week of The Call of the Wild, a film adaptation of Jack London’s novel, directed by Chris Sanders, written by Michael Green, and starring Harrison…
Category: American literature
August Wilson’s “Jitney” at The Old Globe
I was introduced to August Wilson by a Study of Filmed Played class at San Diego City College, in which we watched Fences, the film with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. Fences, set in the…
Feeding on the Spectres in Books
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions …
On “The Innocents Abroad” and “The Odyssey”
I’ve been reading Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad for a literary book club. I’d never read it before, although I love great travel writing like John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory (an…