Jeff Jackson: Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Jackson’s Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel comes at the same story from radically different angles that echo and rewrite each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.8 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No to turn. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt. |
| 0:28.6 | This is Bookworm. |
| 0:30.6 | My guest today is Jeff Jackson. |
| 0:34.6 | His new book is a rock novel. It's called Destroyal Monsters. If you hold it one way, |
| 0:43.2 | you can read the A side, and if you turn it upside down, you can read the B side. But I think |
| 0:51.9 | these are two different versions of the same song. |
| 0:58.3 | Sure. |
| 0:59.4 | They're coming at the same story from very radically different angles. |
| 1:05.2 | In some ways, the book has been talked about like it's an old vinyl single. |
| 1:08.8 | To me, it's maybe more like a cassette in that the B side |
| 1:12.6 | is sort of erasing and rewriting the A side at the same time. Well, side A is known as My Dark Ages, |
| 1:24.5 | and side B is called Kill City. |
| 1:29.5 | Now, if you open side A, there's a picture and dedication to Johnny Ace who shot himself |
| 1:38.0 | on the verge of his first hit, becoming number one. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah, so Johnny Ace is one of the really early sort of rock and roll |
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