In 1999, Jacobs wrote an essay, Running with the Wolves: Jack London and the Cult of Masculinity.
Jacobs' controversial series for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Las Vegas Sun, The New Homeless, about Jacobs and his girlfriend Lela Michael and their experiences with homelessness in Las Vegas,[REF][REF][REF] elicited praise and commentary from LA Weekly,[REF] Witness LA,[REF] The Awl[REF] and La Presse.[REF]