Today is the birthday of the great American writer Jack London (1876-1916). I really love early 20th century fiction with its exhilarating mix of then-new social and philosophical ideas, the kaleidoscopic clashes of notions drawn from thinkers like Marx, Darwin, Spencer and Neitzsche. History has put paid to many of the ideas then in circulation, but I [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:27PM on January 12, 2013