Rodger Jacobs is an American journalist, writer, author, film producer, columnist, playwright, editor and screenwriter.

Jacobs has been a journalist for publications such as Eye Magazine, Hustler

Hustler

Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to...

 and PopMatters

PopMatters

PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...

. He also worked for many years as an adult film industry screenwriter.

In 2005, Jacobs' original essay, Running with the Wolves: Jack London and the Cult of Masculinity, was added to the permanent collection of Jack London

Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...

 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

Tom Flannery

Tom Flannery is an American singer-songwriter and playwright from Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Allmusic has called him "one of the most gifted songwriters to emerge at the turn of the century." After three critically acclaimed albums he...

 had its world premiere in 2007 and continues to be displayed in various theatrical venues in Pennsylvania and upstate New York with actor Bob Hughes.

Also in 2007, Jacobs wrote and directed a live presentation, The Ragged Promised Land, for the Vesuvio Cafe and The Beat Museum in San Francisco to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...

 On The Road

On the Road

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of...

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Jacobs' controversial series for the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

-winning Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas Sun

The Las Vegas Sun is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. It is one of Las Vegas, Nevada's two daily newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group....

, The New Homeless elicited praise and commentary from LA Weekly

LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...

, Witness LA, The Awl

The Awl

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 and La Presse.

Jacobs is a film producer best known for being the screenwriter and producer of Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes is a 1998 documentary directed by Cass Paley, written and produced by Rodger Jacobs and starring John C. Holmes, Ron Jeremy, Larry Flynt, Misty Dawn, Aunt Peg, Rodger Jacobs and Paul Thomas Anderson.- Overview :...

a 1998 documentary

Documentary

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External links

• Official website
• Jack London: San Francisco Stories
• Jack London: San Francisco Stories Edited by Matthew Asprey, Preface by Rodger Jacobs on Amazon.com
• Long Time Money and Lots of Cocaine by Rodger Jacobs on Amazon.com
• Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride by Rodger Jacobs on Amazon.com
• The New Homeless:Pt 1
• The New Homeless:Pt 2
• The New Homeless:Pt 3
• Profile of Rodger Jacobs: "À deux doigts de la rue" (Two Fingers From the Street) by Nicolas Berube (La Presse, Canada)
• The New Homeless: Rodger Jacobs, Part 2 - Moving, Celeste Fremon, Witness LA
• The New Homeless: Rodger Jacobs and the Myth of Solid Ground, Celeste Fremon, Witness LA
• Conversing with Rudy Wurlitzer: 'A Beaten-Up Old Scribbler' by Rodger Jacobs at Pop Matters
• The Big Nowhere: Rudy Wurlitzer's Rediscovered Trilogy by Rodger Jacobs at Pop Matters
• Rudy Wurlitzer, Bob Dylan, Bloody Sam, and the Jornado del Muerto by Rodger Jacobs at Pop Matters
• The Hardest Work Imaginable: Bukowski's Wine-Stained Notebook by Rodger Jacobs at Pop Matters
• Review of "Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride" by Henry Baum, Self-Publishing Review
• Life During Wartime: Carl Sandburg's Poetry of the Macabre by Rodger Jacobs at Pop Matters
• Reading Jackie: When Literary Choices Become Biography by Rodger Jacobs at Pop Matters
• Jack Shaw reviews "Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller" at Stage Magazine
• "Bluebeard in Latex" by Rodger Jacobs, Runner-up in PEN American Center's "PEN Shorts" contest, April 2010