About Rodger Jacobs

RODGER JACOBS has been a journalist for Eye magazine, Hustler, Wireless Week, Michel Berandi’s Panik, Razor, High Society, and E Commerce Business News, among others, a feature documentary writer and producer (Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes), screenwriter, playwright (Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller), true crime writer (Long Time Money and Lots of Cocaine), freelance book critic, and live event producer.

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In 2005, Rodger’s original essay, Running with the Wolves: Jack London and the Cult of Masculinity, was added to the permanent collection of Jack London research at the U.C. Berkeley digital archives, the largest repository of Jack London research in the world, sanctioned by the late author’s estate. Rodger also provided the preface and editorial consultation on Jack London’s San Francisco Stories (Sydney Samizdat Press, 2010) edited by Matthew Asprey.

Rodger’s controversial series for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Las Vegas Sun, The New Homeless (August 29, September 26, and November 27, 2010) elicited praise and commentary from the L.A. Weekly, the Norfolk Catholic Examiner, the Awl, Witness L.A. (Celeste Fremon), Susan Bruce at the Working America blog, Los Angeles Public Radio, Blogging L.A., La Presse Canada, as well as news segments for TV 4 Sweden and Belgian Public Television (VRT) with acclaimed broadcast journalist Greet De Keyser.

Mr. Bukowski’s Wild Ride (2008), a collection of original short stories, was hailed by critic and novelist Henry Baum (The Golden Calf) as “a strange (fictional) biography of Bukowski … in which you get a real sense of how he breathed and moved … a totally unique take on the man that he probably wouldn’t have had the gall to write himself.”

Presently, Jacobs pens a popular monthly book column, The Deconstruction Zone, for Pop Matters, an international magazine of cultural criticism with over 1 million unique readers per month.

Rodger can be contacted at rodger_jacobs@yahoo.com.