Theodore Hamm
Encyclopedia
Theodore Hamm is an American
author
, writer
and the
founding editor of the New York City
-based literary and culture tabloid The Brooklyn Rail
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, was published by the University of California Press in 2001.
for teaching in the prison's college program. He is currently an associate professor of urban studies at Metropolitan College of New York. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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United States
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author
Author
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, writer
Writer
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and the
founding editor of the New York City
New York City
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-based literary and culture tabloid The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail is a political, artistic and literary magazine based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Coverage includes political andliterary essays, art criticism, interviews, original fiction and poetry, and reviews....
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Books
His first novel, Hank Thompson's Blues, was published by Nobody Rocks Press in May 2009. His nonfiction book The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics was published in May 2008 by the New Press. His first nonfiction work, Rebel and a Cause, about the 1960 execution of San Quentin death row author Caryl ChessmanCaryl Chessman
Caryl Whittier Chessman was a convicted robber and rapist who gained fame as a death row inmate in California. Chessman's case attracted worldwide attention, and as a result he became a cause célèbre for the movement to ban capital punishment.-Crime and conviction:Born in St...
, was published by the University of California Press in 2001.
Career
Hamm's essays and editorials in the Brooklyn Rail have received awards from the Independent Press Association-New York, and he has also written for publications including the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, In These Times, and Truthdig.com. In 1997, he received the Outstanding Volunteer Service award from San Quentin State PrisonSan Quentin State Prison
San Quentin State Prison is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men in unincorporated San Quentin, Marin County, California, United States. Opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in the state. California's only death row for male inmates, the largest...
for teaching in the prison's college program. He is currently an associate professor of urban studies at Metropolitan College of New York. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...
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