Jack Alcott's Writings
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Oct.27.2009
The Journal News
By Jack AlcottFormed in 1983, The Flaming Lips cut their teeth playing Oklahoma City’s underground punk and new wave clubs, gradually evolving into one of the most experimental and original bands on the national scene. With 2002’s “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” they burned their way onto the airwaves with memorable trance tunes like “Do You Realize?,"...
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Mar.20.2009
UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY
LOGLINE: Adventure/Horror.
Two grad students hatch a scheme to do "research" in the Amazon as a foil for their real plan to dig for gold. They soon find themselves deep in the jungle and at odds with a band of cutthroat mercenaries, violent tribesmen and something else that lurks in the lush shadows all around them ...
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EXT. A RIVER - DAY...
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Short Story
Jan.11.2009
UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY
LOGLINE: FANTASY/SCI FI.
Scott Wells, a hapless scientist in a troubled marriage, stumbles onto a street performer and contortionist known as The Polka Dot man who is able to walk through time and space, and who soon takes him along for the ride. Wells gets a chance to go back to when he proposed to his wife, but changes his mind about marrying her. His life...
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Jan.07.2009
Here's an excerpt from an article by Joe Queenan in The New York Times Book Review (Sunday, April 8, 2007) :
A short while ago, a ripping yarn called Grim Legion: Edgar Allan Poe at West Point came across my desk. Published by Bewildering Press, a relatively new firm that specializes in speculative writing, Grim Legion recounts the rousing adventures of the...
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Jan.07.2009
WVOX RADIO
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue234/alcott_interview.html
Interview with Jack Alcottby Phil Reisman of WVOX radio
Jack Alcott, author of “Grim Legion”, was interviewed Jan. 4, 2007, on WVOX, Westchester, N.Y., by radio personality and newspaper columnist Phil Reisman.
PHIL: Our guest today, here on “High Noon,” 1460 A.M., WVOX, is Jack Alcott, the one...
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Jul.18.2008
April 8, 2007
Here's an excerpt from an article by Joe Queenan in The New York Times Book Review (Sunday, April 8, 2007) :
A short while ago, a ripping yarn called Grim Legion: Edgar Allan Poe at West Point came across my desk. Published by Bewildering Press, a relatively new firm that specializes in speculative writing, Grim Legion recounts the rousing adventures of the...
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Jul.17.2008
LOGLINE: West Point Cadet Edgar Allan Poe and his crazier, opium-addicted brother try to solve murders near the military academy — only to become suspects themselves.
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A SUBTITLE reads:
WEST POINT, NEW YORK OCTOBER, 1830
EXT. HUDSON RIVER - DAY
The CAMERA glides over the river's roiling surface, rising toward the cliffs and crags of the...
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Short Story
Jul.16.2008
Bewildering Press
From Grim Legion, a novel by Jack Alcott:
Alas! The grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful ... they must sleep or they will devour us — they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.” — Edgar Allan Poe
Chapter One...
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About Jack
I'm the author of Grim Legion, a mystery/thriller (see THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW below), and I'm the special projects/investigations editor at The Journal News, a 125,000+ daily in Westchester County, N.Y. Aside from ten years in Berkeley and San...
Jack’s Favorite Books
While kicking around the Bay Area in the 1970s, I signed up for as many classes as I could with San Francisco State University's always entertaining and...