F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Pat Hobby Stories", as well as Ernest Hemingway's "The Nick Adams Stories." In December 2012, Jacobs' collection of short fiction and novellas, Invisible Ink (The Book Motel), was lauded as the "most exemplary L.A. book of 2012" by Joseph Mailander in his City Watch L.A. column. Salon and Los Angeles Review of Books published Jacobs' Franz Kafka themed essay in January 2013 entitled Did Kafka Invent Noir? Jacobs was also a film producer best known for being the screenwriter and producer of the 1998 documentary Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes. Death Jacobs died at home on July 5, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. After learning of Jacobs' death, Jacobs' former girlfriend Lela Michael attempted to preserve his archives yet failed to do so since the two were never married. Lela Michael called off her efforts and died from cancer in Lake County, California on July 28, 2016, twenty-four days after Jacobs' passing. References External links Official website Rodger Jacobs at PopMatters 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: Part 1 The New Homeless: Part 2 The New Homeless: Part 3 The New Homeless documentary: Part 1 The New Homeless documentary: Part 2 The New Homeless documentary: Part 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 and the Myth of Solid Ground, Celeste Fremon, Witness LA The New Homeless: Rodger Jacobs, Part 2 – Moving, Celeste Fremon, Witness LA Review of "Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride" by Henry Baum, Self-Publishing Review 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 American male journalists American columnists American literary critics American male screenwriters American male dramatists and playwrights American alternative journalists American political writers American social commentators American editors Film producers from California American male short story writers American documentary film producers American bloggers Writers from San Francisco 1959 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American