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UK. You're listening to the LRB podcast, I'm Thomas Jones, and this week I'm joined by Jessica Olin, who's been writing for the LRB since 2000.

She has a piece in the latest issue on the Presley dynasty.

It's a review of from here to the Great Unknown,

a memoir by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough, Elvis Presley's daughter and granddaughter.

Hello, Jessica, and thank you so much for talking with me.

Thank you, Tom. So I wasn't quite sure where to begin the conversation. I don't know,

sort of who was Elvis Presley is probably

not necessary. But maybe we could begin with the book, which seems quite a strange book in some

ways, in many ways. And presumably it would have been a different sort of book if Lisa Marie Presley

hadn't died in 2023 while she was working on it. So how is the book put together?

So the book is, it's not necessarily chronological.

It is told in both the voices of Lisa Marie and her daughter, Riley.

So they go back and forth between their two voices.

It begins, you know, with Lisa Marie's childhood at Graceland. There's a lot about Elvis

as her father, very loving section. And it goes through all of the history alternating between

their two voices. And Riley, Keogne, with the help of another ghostwriter who goes unnamed, one of the suit.

Yes.

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