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href="/wiki/File:Rodger_Jacobs_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Rodger_Jacobs_2010.jpg/220px-Rodger_Jacobs_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Rodger_Jacobs_2010.jpg/330px-Rodger_Jacobs_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Rodger_Jacobs_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="387" data-file-height="258" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Rodger Jacobs, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2010</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1959-03-12</span>)</span>March 12, 1959<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 5, 2016<span style="display:none">(2016-07-05)</span> (aged 57)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Journalist, writer, author, film producer, columnist, playwright, editor, screenwriter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Partner</th><td class="infobox-data">Lela Michael</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Carole Jacobs</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rodger Jacobs</b> (March 12, 1959 – July 5, 2016)<sup id="cite_ref-LAC_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LAC-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American journalist, writer, author, film producer, columnist, playwright, editor and screenwriter.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rodger_Jacobs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jacobs was a journalist for publications such as <i><a href="/wiki/Salon_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (website)">Salon</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Review_of_Books" title="Los Angeles Review of Books">Los Angeles Review of Books</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Sun" title="Las Vegas Sun">Las Vegas Sun</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Eye_(magazine)" title="Eye (magazine)">Eye</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hustler_(magazine)" title="Hustler (magazine)">Hustler</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/PopMatters" title="PopMatters">PopMatters</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-PM_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also worked for many years as an <i><a href="/wiki/AVN_(magazine)" title="AVN (magazine)">AVN</a></i> award-winning adult film industry screenwriter and trade journalist.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, Jacobs wrote an essay, <i>Running with the Wolves: Jack London and the Cult of Masculinity.</i> In 2010, Jacobs provided the preface for <i>Jack London: San Francisco Stories</i>, an anthology for Sydney Samizdat Press. </p><p><i>Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller</i>, a play based on actor <a href="/wiki/Jason_Miller_(playwright)" title="Jason Miller (playwright)">Jason Miller</a>, known for the role of <a href="/wiki/Damien_Karras" title="Damien Karras">Father Damien Karras</a> in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Exorcist_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Exorcist (film)">The Exorcist</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-RH_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RH-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that Jacobs co-wrote with <a href="/wiki/Tom_Flannery" title="Tom Flannery">Tom Flannery</a>, had its world premiere in 2007 and continues to be displayed in various theatrical venues in Pennsylvania and upstate New York with actor Robert Thomas Hughes, a childhood friend of Jason Miller.<sup id="cite_ref-RH_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RH-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing in <i>Stage</i> magazine, critic Jack Shaw hailed <i>Purgatory Diaries</i> as "a stirring examination of celebrity madness."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Go Irish</i> was performed again in 2015 by Robert Thomas Hughes.<sup id="cite_ref-RH_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RH-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, Jacobs wrote and directed a live presentation, <i>The Ragged Promised Land</i>, for the <a href="/wiki/Vesuvio_Cafe" title="Vesuvio Cafe">Vesuvio Cafe</a> and The Beat Museum in San Francisco to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kerouac" title="Jack Kerouac">Jack Kerouac</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Road" title="On the Road">On the Road</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, he released <i>Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride</i>, a collection of original surrealist fiction, for exclusive consignment sale at City Lights Books in San Francisco; writing in the <i>Self-Publishing Review</i>, author Henry Baum cited the book as "another piece to add to (Bukowski's) towering myth … it also gets to the soul of the man … as funny as any of Bukowski's own writing."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs' controversial series for the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>-winning <i><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Sun" title="Las Vegas Sun">Las Vegas Sun</a></i>, <i>The New Homeless</i>, about Jacobs and his <a href="/wiki/Girlfriend" title="Girlfriend">girlfriend</a> Lela Michael and their experiences with <a href="/wiki/Homelessness" title="Homelessness">homelessness</a> in <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> elicited praise and commentary from <i><a href="/wiki/LA_Weekly" title="LA Weekly">LA Weekly</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Witness LA</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Awl" title="The Awl">The Awl</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/La_Presse_(Canadian_newspaper)" title="La Presse (Canadian newspaper)">La Presse</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The series was also the subject of a three part documentary by Katharine Euphrat featuring Rodger Jacobs and Lela Michael.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Silver Birch Press</i> published Jacobs' original work <i>The Furthest Palm</i> in August 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobs describes "Palm" as a series of "heavily autobiographical stories that were woven into the tapestry of a novel", and "postmodern L.A. noir heavily influenced by Raymond Chandler, Leonard Gardner ("Fat City"), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Pat Hobby Stories", as well as Ernest Hemingway's "The Nick Adams Stories." </p><p>In December 2012, Jacobs' collection of short fiction and novellas, <i>Invisible Ink</i> (The Book Motel), was lauded as the "most exemplary L.A. book of 2012" by Joseph Mailander in his <i>City Watch L.A.</i> column.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Salon_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (website)">Salon</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Review_of_Books" title="Los Angeles Review of Books">Los Angeles Review of Books</a></i> published Jacobs' <a href="/wiki/Franz_Kafka" title="Franz Kafka">Franz Kafka</a> themed essay in January 2013 entitled <i>Did Kafka Invent Noir?</i><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobs was also a film producer best known for being the screenwriter and producer of the 1998 documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Wadd:_The_Life_%26_Times_of_John_C._Holmes" title="Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. 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