Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson, by Jack Skelley, is a story cycle depicting the life and death of Beach Boys Drummer Dennis Wilson and his relationship with serial killer Charles Manson. The stories - fictionalized accounts based on documented research - include Dennis Wilson's encounters with Manson and the Manson Family. The book also includes passages of verse. These include an "e;Epilogue Remix - Beach Boys Beach Boys Villanelle."e;Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson is a chapbook published by Fred & Barney Press.

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles.Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley’s “secretly legendary” novel is at once an homage to the thrillingly inventive spirit of Kathy Acker’s cut-up novels and a definitive history of LA’s underground culture of the mid-1980s. Composed in bursts, Fear of Kathy Acker depicts Los Angeles through the eyes of a self-mocking narrator. Shifting styles and personae as he moves between Venice and Torrance, punk clubs and shopping malls, Disneyland and Dodger Stadium, Jack Skelley pushes the limits of language and identity while pursuing—much as Kathy Acker did—a quixotic literary mix of discipline and anarchy. In this adrenalized, cosmic, and comic chronicle of Los Angeles, Skelley’s “real life” friends make cameo appearances alongside pop archetypes from Madonna to Billy Idol. This first-ever complete edition of the book includes new essays, playlists, and a map of the 1980s Los Angeles in which its manic protagonist lives and loves.

Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson, by Jack Skelley, is a story cycle depicting the life and death of Beach Boys Drummer Dennis Wilson and his relationship with serial killer Charles Manson. The stories - fictionalized accounts based on documented research - include Dennis Wilson's encounters with Manson and the Manson Family. The book also includes passages of verse. These include an "e;Epilogue Remix - Beach Boys Beach Boys Villanelle."e;Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson is a chapbook published by Fred & Barney Press.

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles.Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley’s “secretly legendary” novel is at once an homage to the thrillingly inventive spirit of Kathy Acker’s cut-up novels and a definitive history of LA’s underground culture of the mid-1980s. Composed in bursts, Fear of Kathy Acker depicts Los Angeles through the eyes of a self-mocking narrator. Shifting styles and personae as he moves between Venice and Torrance, punk clubs and shopping malls, Disneyland and Dodger Stadium, Jack Skelley pushes the limits of language and identity while pursuing—much as Kathy Acker did—a quixotic literary mix of discipline and anarchy. In this adrenalized, cosmic, and comic chronicle of Los Angeles, Skelley’s “real life” friends make cameo appearances alongside pop archetypes from Madonna to Billy Idol. This first-ever complete edition of the book includes new essays, playlists, and a map of the 1980s Los Angeles in which its manic protagonist lives and loves.