October 6, 2025
“The Lost Art of Album Release Parties” – Boomer magazine
We hustled into my room, nodding at the familiar, Jimmy Page poster on the wall, stoked for the teenage ritual we had down pat.
September 23, 2025
The Liberty and Tragedy of Greatest-Generation Parents
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.
September 16, 2025
The Seeds of “Later Days” and the Ties Binding Our Two Main Characters, Denny & Luke
"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…
September 11, 2025
In ‘Later Days,’ Chip Jacobs draws on Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge’s past
"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…
August 22, 2025
LA: Prepare for Your Atmospheric Closeup with the PBS/American Experience Documentary …
"Clearing the Air: The War on Smog." Premieres on Tuesday, August 26.
August 7, 2025
Book Cover - 2D - Later Days copy
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…
November 26, 2024
Highway Killers in the Land of Concrete
Growing up in northeast LA County, I knew one set of numbers were so incendiary they were practically fighting words. 7-1-0.
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