Jack Skelley: “Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson”

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jack Skelley speaks about his new book, “Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson,” and the bad Beach Boy’s intersection with a serial killer.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:11.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Tender.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:24.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:32.7	Today, a poet and writer, whom I haven't seen in nearly 40 years, is here with us.
0:42.4	He has published his first new book in years.
0:48.5	His name is Jack Skelly.
0:50.7	I know him from the glory days at Beyond Baroque when he and Amy Gersler and Jim
0:59.8	Crusoe and Benjamin Weissman, so many people.
1:05.0	Dennis Cooper.
1:06.0	Dennis Cooper, of course.
1:08.0	I was participating in the fiction writing workshop at Beyond Baroque.
1:14.8	Before us, X. A Vaccine used to come. Tom Waits used to attend that workshop.
1:22.6	It was the fabulous, ongoing thing in Venice beyond Baroque.
1:31.4	Jack, does it still exist?
1:33.6	Thank you, Michael.
1:34.2	It's great to be here.
1:35.2	It's been going strong for over 50 years.
1:37.1	I think it's the 52nd year now.
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