"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."

--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast
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Sunday, March 29, 2020

My Novels and More: FREE E-BOOKS From Fomite Press

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ENDS MAY 31, 2020

Monday, January 29, 2018

Still Tripping....a New Essay Collection

Still Tripping in the Dark Kindle EditionIf you have never read any of my essays or would like to have some of them in a bound paper version, here's your chance (such as it is....)  Click here

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Can We Escape the Eternal Flame?

  Product Details       

Love, war and peace. Passions transcending time and as permanent as the history being made. Manhattan, 911, and desire. Vietnam, Berkeley and the road. Three main characters personify them all. This novella is a reflection of the time and on the times.

and a link to order it:



By Ron Jacobs

Also available from Amazon and other online bookstores. 
ISBN-13:  978-1523695744


thanks....

Thursday, August 27, 2015

If Daydream Sunset:60s Counterculture in the '70s had a playlist, this would be it



“I’m Free”----The Who from Tommy
“Good Times, Bad Times”----Led Zeppelin
“The Israelites”---Desmond Dekker and the Aces
“Gimme Shelter”----Rolling Stones from Let It Bleed
“Okie From Muskogee”---Merle Haggard
“New Speedway Boogie”---Grateful Dead from Workingman’s Dead
“Luv & Haight”---Sly and the Family Stone from There’s a Riot Goin’ On
“For Everyman”---Jackson Browne from For Everyman
“I Threw It All Away”---Bob Dylan from Nashville Skyline
“God”---John Lennon from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
“Them Changes”---Jimi Hendrix from Band of Gypsys
“Ohio”---Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“Out of Gas”---Prairie Fire
“H₂0 Gate Blues”----Gil Scott Heron/Brian Jackson from Winter in America
“Hurricane”---Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder Revue from Live 1975
“Break It Up”---Patti Smith Group from Horses
“Before the Deluge”---Jackson Browne from Late For the Sky
“Rebel, Rebel”---David Bowie from Diamond Dogs
“Backstreets”----Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from Born to Run
“Simple Man”---Lynyrd Skynyrd from (Pronounced 'LÄ•h-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
“Red Headed Stranger”---Willie Nelson from Red Headed Stranger
“Sitting In Limbo”---Jimmy Cliff from The Harder They Come
“White Riot”---The Clash
“Rebel Music”---Bob Marley and the Wailers from Natty Dread
“Long Hot Summer”---Tom Robinson Band from Power in the Darkness
“God Save the Queen”---The Sex Pistols
“Less Than Zero”---Elvis Costello and the Attractions from My Aim is True
“What About Me?”---Quicksilver Messenger Service from What About Me?
“Estimated Prophet”---Grateful Dead from Dick’s Picks Volume 15/Live Englishtown, NJ 9/3/1977
“Respectable”---Rolling Stones from Some Girls
“Vicious”---Lou Reed from Transformer
“The Pretender”---Jackson Browne from The Pretender
“Factory”---Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from Darkness On the Edge of Town
 “Jimmy Jazz”---The Clash from London Calling
“California Über Alles”---Dead Kennedys
“You Gotta’ Serve Somebody”---Bob Dylan from Slow Train Coming
“Comfortably Numb”---Pink Floyd from The Wall
“US Blues”---Grateful Dead live 1/15/1980 Cambodian Refugees Benefit, Oakland, CA.










Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Reading in Burlington, VT.

three part invention 4
Fomite authors read from their works
  • Ron Jacobs - Seventies Trilogy (novels)
  • Tina Escaja and Kristin Dijkstra - (poetry - Tina reads in the original Spanish, Kristin reads the English translations)
  • Jack Pulaski - Love’s Labours (stories)
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Off Center for the Dramatic Arts
294 N Winooski Ave, Burlington
7:00 pm