Jack Skelley

Jack Skelley is the author of the novel The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e), 2023), and Myth Lab: Theories of Plastic Love (Far West Press, 2024). Jack’s other books include Monsters (Little Caesar Press, 1982), Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press, 2021), and Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing (BlazeVOX, 2022). Jack’s psychedelic surf band Lawndale released two albums on SST Records, and has a new album, Twango.

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Blorp!
Jack Skelley beams himself into the future to watch the robots of Kraftwerk serve Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Jack SkelleyJun 13
Facsimile the Cosmos
Jack Skelley pays the piper at the gates of Zebulon: Robyn Hitchcock covering Syd Barrett songs in Los Angeles.
Jack SkelleyJun 7
Glass House Is a Smash
Jack Skelley has no stones to throw at “Glass House,” a new intermedia performance organized by Volta Collective and Central Server Works.
Jack SkelleyMar 9
Theme Park or Museum?
Jack Skelley tours Luna Luna, an art theme park recently resurrected by Drake, containing work by Basquiat, Haring, and others.
Jack SkelleyJan 6
Revolutionary Blake-splaining
For Jack Skelley, William Blake has it all: from colonization and sex to post-structuralism and the superego.
Jack SkelleyJan 4
Kathy Acker Masturbated Here
For Jack Skelley, Kathy Acker was a writer who both masterfully baited and masturbated, occasionally at the same time.
Jack SkelleyDec 16, 2023
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.
Jack SkelleyDec 1, 2023
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.
Jack SkelleyNov 15, 2023

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