Mark Jacobs, author
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ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
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Essays

Paraguay: Versions of Unknowability“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
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Whigging Out: How I Kept Getting an Important Thing Wrong | Lowestoft Chronicle (essay)

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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"Mark Jacobs is an American literary treasure. I've read him for years in various venues. Never disappointed. Thank you for publishing him. Thank you, Mark, for writing.”

- ROBIN | Johnny America Reader

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  • Books
    • Silent Light
    • A Handful of Kings
    • Forty Wolves
    • Stone Cowboy
    • A Cast of Spaniards
    • The Liberation of Little Heaven
  • Short Stories
  • Essays & More