Essays, Interviews & Reviews

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​Essays

​“Whigging Out: How I Kept Getting an Important Thing Wrong,” Lowestoft Chronicle
​"The Art of Diplomacy and the Anticipation of Memory: Imagination at Work and Play," Evergreen Review
"Letter from Pamplin," The Hudson Review
​ “Exceptionalism Redux,” Evergreen Review
​"The Intimate Other," Peace Corps Worldwide
Keynote Address to Virginia Lessons from Abroad Conference at Longwood University, Peace Corps Worldwide
From the Well: On Writing "Daddy Says," Driftwood Press
"Routine, Ritual, Poetry," Superstition Review
"Imagination's Limit," The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review
"Border Bleed," Peace Corps Worldwide
“What Creeley Knew,” Talisman
“Redrawing the Line: Gertrude Himmelfarb’s On Looking into the Abyss,” International Quarterly
“Think of It as a Blackbird,” Foreign Service Journal
"Both Sides of the Border,"Writers on America ; republished in World View Magazine
“Writing American,” in Peace Corps Writers

Interviews

​"Conversation with Mark Jacobs," in Lowestoft Chronicle
Interview with Kurt Baumeister in The Oddville Press  
Mark Jacobs on "Not John" Peace Corps Writers
"Talking With Mark Jacobs," Peace Corps Writers
"A Serious Conversation," Counterpunch

Book Reviews

​Review - Tacoma Stories by Richard Wiley, Peace Corps Worldwide
“Redrawing the Line: Gertrude Himmelfarb’s On Looking into the Abyss,” International Quarterly
Review - The Emperor and the Elephants by Richard Carroll, Peace Corps Worldwide




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