Hamm and
BOMB magazine's Monica de la Torre at the August 2010 book launch of
John Reed's Tales of Woe.
Theodore Hamm (born September 14, 1966, in Chicago) is an American author, writer and the founding editor of the New York City-based literary and culture tabloid The Brooklyn Rail.
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 Chessman, was published by the University of California Press in 2001.
Hamm is co-editor (with Williams Cole) of Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction 2000-2010. And he is a member of the Brooklyn Literary Council, which organizes the Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Hamm's essays and editorials in the Brooklyn Rail have received awards from the Independent Press Association-New York[citation needed], and he has also written for 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 Prison for teaching in the prison's college program. He is an associate professor of urban studies at Metropolitan College of New York and lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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