Jack Skelley

Jack Skelley is the author of the novel The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e), 2023). Jack’s other books include Monsters (Little Caesar Press), Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press), and Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing (BlazeVOX). Jack’s psychedelic surf band Lawndale (which released two albums on SST Records) has a new album, Twango.

Articles

I Used to Be Disgusted, and Now I Try to Be Amused
Jack Skelley went to the Poetic Research Bureau and found two writers finding themselves in mass-cultural epiphanies....
Dec 1
Ultra-Casual
Jack Skelley stumbles right up to the razor’s edge of Los Angeles’s alt-lit scene, and perhaps tumbles into the ether....
Nov 15
Sex. Scenes. Zines.
SPASM WEST: Sul Mousavi, Kate Durbin, Tee Park, Zoey Greenwald, Jack Skelley at Stories Books & Café, Los Angeles, October 23, 2023. ¤ In an ode to the late, amazing playwright Reza Abdoh, Artforum’s Jennifer Krasinksi recently wrote, “[L]oosed threads ...
Oct 22
Posthumous Existence: A Conversation with Anahid Nersessian
Jack Skelley talks with Anahid Nersessian about her new book “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse.”...
Feb 18
- Poetry
“I’ve Always Been Fascinated by the Fate of Objects”: A Conversation with David Trinidad
Jack Skelley talks with David Trinidad about his new book, “Digging to Wonderland: Memory Pieces.”...
Aug 15, 2022
- Memoir
- Poetry
The Descent of Autofiction … and the Rise of the Literary Thrill-Seeking Industrial Complex
Autofiction and new narrative are booming, thanks to a host of innovative writers and presses....
Feb 4, 2022
- Fiction
The Art of Entertaining: A Conversation with Elaine Equi
Jack Skelley talks to poet Elaine Equi....
Jun 16, 2021
- Poetry
A Poet in Hell
“Salvation Canyon” rises above the survivor-memoir genre and touches on the elemental power of consciousness....
Nov 17, 2020
- Memoir
- Poetry