Robert Jacoby
I'm a poet, novelist, memoirist, and diarist. My poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in more than 20 literary magazines. My story “The Span of Blood” was selected runner up in the 2018 Haunted Waters Press Short Shorts Flash Fiction Competition; read the story here. I'm the author of four books:
Never Stop Dancing: A Memoir
(2019, nonfiction);
Dusk and Ember
(2019, novel);
There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes
(2012, novel); and
Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Tales
(2011, nonfiction). The book's website is escaping-from-reality.com and has audio clips of the interviews, an FAQ, and more. I'm currently working on two new novels.
Visit my other sites around the web to see what I'm all about:
• robert-jacoby.com
• Facebook page
• Amazon Author page
• LinkedIn page
My professional work focuses on website governance and management issues:
• Website Governance Modeling Tool site
• CMSWire magazine profile
“An interesting captain on there, McNamara. Th e United States Lines had three captains. Every company had their captains that were notorious, and U.S. Lines had McNamara. Later on, McNamara, he dies, and the Wilmington Union Hall for Masters, Mates and Pilots—cuz he was captain, he would come out of that hall—they had a partywhen he died. Baked a cake.It wasn’t every day you got to lose one like him.Some people took this more seriously than others is the only way I can phrase this.”
“The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.”
“The way I always kind of look at it: everything’s important and nothing’s important. If you’re gonna have a drama, have it over something that’s worth the time. Some people take it more seriously than others, like a Lowell. But we all end up the same.”
“Everyone uses their own dictionary.”