...Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise.
Vital Little Plans collects for the first time Jacobs’s interviews, speeches, talks and short pieces of journalism – and there is much in this lucid and persuasive anthology that resonates today.
...funny and enlightening book. Read this instead of worrying over medical studies, and allow Jacobs to lead you through the labyrinth of questionable and conflicting information.
While the novel's slips - and typos - may be forgiven as the product of haste, its meticulous cynicism is more troubling...
Then, like a test pilot who pushes her plane too far, she crashes and burns on the grisly tales of an unnamed single source, supposedly an Area 51 engineer and Manhattan Project veteran who leads her on a wild goose chase...