About
For the last seventeen years Rodger Jacobs has written professionally for just about every medium imaginable. In 1999 he wrote several cover stories for the pop culture magazine Eye (including The Seven Deadly Sins of Billy Jack and Exhausted: The Dark Secrets of Johnny Wadd); his other feature articles have appeared in Hustler, Wireless Week, E Commerce Business News, Razor, High Society, Adult Video News (AVN), Adam Film World and Juxtapoz.
From 1999 to 2000 Rodger served as Editor-In-Chief at New Rave Magazine, writing under at least ten pen names, many of them (Todd Hackett, Claude Estee, Faye Greener) cribbed from Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.
Jacobs has written and produced a number of documentary features, the most notable being the award-winning Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes. Other documentaries Rodger is credited with are World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes, a three-hour examination of the economic impact of the Second World War, and the women’s history epic, “Women: First and Foremost” as well as Guns of the Civil War.
He once scribbled for coin under the nom de plume of Martin Brimmer but that is a lifetime behind him.
Rodger’s true crime book, Long Time Money and Lots of Cocaine, still continues to sell very well two years after publication.
In 2005, his 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 and sanctioned by the late author’s estate.
Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, a play Jacobs co-wrote with Tom Flannery had its world premiere in 2007. Also in 2007, he wrote and directed a live presentation, The Ragged Promised Land, for Vesuvio Cafe and the Beat Museum in San Francisco to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road”.
Presently, Rodger Jacobs writes a popular book column, The Deconstruction Zone, for Pop Matters.
Rodger’s chapbook, Mr. Bukowski’s Wild Ride (ISBN 978-0-6152-2310-0) was released in July ‘08 by Trace Publications and is presently available at City Lights Books in San Francisco, as well as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Target stores online.
To read what people are saying about Carver’s Dog, please see Dog Bytes.
(Photo: Rodger Jacobs at Vesuvio, 2007, courtesy of Klieger at Flickr)
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“Short, flash vignettes that’ll keep you reading. You won’t stop once you’ve started it … Overall, this is like reading a strange biography of Bukowski … in which you get a real sense of how he breathed and moved. Another piece to add to his towering myth … if you love Bukowski, you’ll love this. A totally unique take on the man that he probably wouldn’t have had the gall to write himself. And he had a lot of gall.”
Heny Baum
