BOOKPLATES is the name given to the exclusive ongoing literary events held at Park La Brea, in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles. These are audiences with best selling authors talking about their latest publications. The contemporary theater setting at Park La Brea creates an intimate atmosphere, where attendees get a chance to interact with the host and special guests. The fifth in our Winter/Spring series of BOOKPLATES is with:
CHIP JACOBS - THE ASCENSION OF JERRY -
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APRIL 4, 2012
Chip Jacobs is a Los Angeles-area author and journalist. His most recent book is Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles (The Overlook Press/Penguin Group USA) with William J. Kelly. The Independent Book Publishers (IPPY) Awards and Green Book Festival honored this social history with silver medals, and the city of Santa Monica bestowed it with the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Booklist magazine, which gave Smogtown a starred review, named it one of the best environmental books of 2008. The Los Angeles Times/Tribune syndicate called the work “sexy,” Publishers Weekly crowned it “powerful” and “accessible,” with others tabbing it “meticulous,” “highly engaging” and “provocative and zany.” It was an official pick of Los Angeles magazine, among other publications. Prior to Smogtown, Jacobs penned Wheeling the Deal: The Outrageous Legend of Gordon Zahler, Hollywood’s Flashiest Quadriplegic. (Behler Publications) Critics have praised Jacobs’ biography of his uncle as a “brilliant and uplifting” story told with “dramatic flair and detached fairness.” The book, which made the winner’s circle at the Hollywood Book Festival, was offered a film option. Besides these books, Jacobs’ popular profile of former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alatorre is included in the anthology Voices of the U.S.-Latino Experience (Greenwood Publications).
