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Chip Jacobs

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in Pasadena , The United States

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography

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Pete Dexter, Philip Roth, John Irving, T.C. Boyle

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Chip Jacobs is an acclaimed author and prize-winning journalist, praised by Publisher Weekly as "an exceptional storyteller." His forthcoming novel, "Later Days," the follow-up to his Los Angeles Times bestselling "Arroyo," will be published in 2025. On the narrative, nonfiction side, Jacobs wrote the riveting, true-crime book, "The Darkest Glare," and the biography "Strange As It Seems," an Indies Book of the Year finalist. He is also the co-author, with William J. Kelly, of two environmental social histories: the international bestselling "Smogtown" and its sequel, "The People's Republic of Chemicals." He has contributed pieces to anthologies, as well, among them "Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine." Jacobs' report ...more

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Divine Rage & Frozen Burritos: the “Later Days” origin story

The origin story behind the award-winning novel Later Days.

When Tom Tookey crashed back into my life after nearly forty years of radio silence, he spared the head-games about why. This was tragically simple. He was dying from a disease that had the bead on him, and besides rekindled friendship, needed someone to be his frozen-burrito delivery guy. That processed junk, in retrospect, proved goo

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	Arroyo 3.94 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine by David Kukoff (Editor), Jeremy Rosenberg (Contributor), John Densmore (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 134 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs (Goodreads Author), William J. Kelly really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkest Glare 3.54 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People's Republic of Chemicals by William J. Kelly, Chip Jacobs (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Later Days 4.58 avg rating — 52 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go Further (Mixtape, #1) by Paul Myers (Editor), S.W. Lauden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Hill (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange As It Seems 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ascension of Jerry: Murder, Hitmen, and the Making of L.A. Muckraker Jerry Schneiderman 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vicodin Thieves 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Chip Jacobs wrote a new blog post Divine Rage & Frozen Burritos: the “Later Days” origin story The origin story behind the award-winning novel Later Days. When Tom Tookey crashed back into my life after nearly forty years of radio silence, he sp Read more of this blog post »
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Chip Jacobs and 2 other people liked Jim Thomsen's review of Later Days: "Unforgettable A funky, funny, sunny, dark, jivey, brainy, voicey novel about the people you know in school and the long reach of the shadows they cast over our adult lives. A nostalgia trip (back to 1979, when we were young and our hearts were open bo" Read more of this review »
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Chip Jacobs and 1 other person liked David Morgan's review of Later Days: "Heartfelt, emotional and brilliantly written. Man could I relate to this story. I saw glimpses of my own classmates in the vividly described characters. The time period, (I graduated high school in '77 in So Cal) and locations (I've been to Vromans's" Read more of this review »
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“politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
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