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Category: American literature

February 21, 2020

“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…

February 14, 2020

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…

September 27, 2019

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  …

September 20, 2019

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…

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