Rob Jacklosky
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | English Professor |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Introduction | The site's name comes from my comic novel, "Cheerio, Idiot" about a love-besotted young man's semester abroad in England. Fun Facts: I used to work for Good Morning America in the booking department. I was an obituary writer for the Bergen Record. In 2000, I had a character ---the young bumbling professor---based on me in the short-lived CBS television program "That's Life." (Please insert here my full acknowledgment of all appropriate Legal Disclaimer Language). I wrote and performed a very off-off-Broadway one-person play, called "Occupation." My short stories have been published in the Sonora Revew, Sendero and Konundrum Literary Engine. I have an essay on Frank Sinatra in a new Palgrave/Macmillan book. And last year, I had lunch with Amy Irving. Boy, that sounds like a pretty interesting life, now that I look at it in print. |
| Interests | Dickens and George Eliot, and, though they have little in common with Victorian literature, figure skating and "fashion week." |
| Favorite movies | Sullivan's Travels, The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Bringing Up Baby, The Magnificent Ambersons, Duck Soup, Local Hero and, of course, Citizen Kane and The Third Man. |
| Favorite music | Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Smiths, The Police, Aztec Camera, The Jam, INXS, The The, No Doubt, Coldplay, Futureheads, and God help me, ABC. |
| Favorite books | Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Middlemarch. |