Chip Jacobs

We hustled into my room, nodding at the familiar, Jimmy Page poster on the wall, stoked for the teenage ritual we had down pat.

Gazing up from our dining-room table that evening in 1969, my seven-year-old eyes began grasping my peculiar circumstance. My father was an old man.

"Later Days" originated between the release of my debut novel, "Arroyo," and pandemic lockdowns, when I drove out to interview the widow of a classmate who’d vanished from our…

"A diamond is formed through tectonic pressure, and I have felt that, whether it was homework or a test, or later in life death, divorce, accidents. I wanted to write a story of…

"Clearing the Air: The War on Smog." Premieres on Tuesday, August 26.

Strike up the band: here's my next book!  In an evocative follow-up to his Los Angeles Times bestselling Arroyo, Chip Jacobs returns with a gripping tale of brotherhood,…

How Licking the Filthiest Air on the Planet Should Fill Us with Hope

Growing up in northeast LA County, I knew one set of numbers were so incendiary they were practically fighting words. 7-1-0.

Why the Sky Disappeared, and Why L.A.'s Smog-Choked Atmosphere Can Be Our Lodestar Today.