And it's a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A quick rundown: The novel received advanced praise from Don DeLillo, Dennis Cooper, David Gates, Chloe Aridjis, and Justin Taylor. But if you're my Goodreads friend, I think there's a solid chance you'll like it, too. He also ran the popular jazz web site Destination: Out ( Right, so I wrote this. "Vine of the Dead," an art ritual that attempted to contact the spirits of ancestors, premiered in 2016. "Botanica" was selected by New York Times as "one of the most galvanizing theater experiences of 2012." His adaptation of the Chinese novel "The Dream of the Red Chamber" - a performance for a sleeping audience" debuted in Times Square in 2014. His limited edition novella "Novi Sad" was picked by Vice as one of the best books of 2016.Īs a playwright, six of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award-winning Collapsable Giraffe company. It was selected one of the Best Books of 2013 in Slate, Salon, and The New Statesman. It was praised by Dennis Cooper, Eimear McBride, and David Gates. His first novel "Mira Corpora" was a Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. It was Largehearted Boy's "Best Novel of 2018." It received advanced praise from Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, Janet Fitch, Dana Spiota, Laura van den Berg, and Dennis Cooper, plus rave reviews in The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, NPR, and more. Like a vinyl single, it has a Side A and Side B which can be read in any order. Jeff Jackson's "Destroy All Monsters" was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2018. "Jeff Jackson is a fresh and startling voice in contemporary fiction-a hallucinatory realist whose prose has the scary energy of rock and roll, and who writes with the assurance of a born storyteller." -David Gates His strangely serene yet gripping, unsettling, and beautifully rendered novel has within it all the earmarks of an important new literary voice." -Dennis Cooper "Jeff Jackson is one the extraordinarily gifted young writers I've read in a very long time. With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and mad hope across a startling, vibrant landscape.
A journey across a shifting dreamlike landscape, featuring feral children, teenage oracles, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar.
It's a coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories. Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson. I hope the book finds serious readers who are out there waiting for this kind of fiction to hit them in the face." -Don DeLillo "It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of certain cultural emblems.
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