Jeff Jackson

One of the 'Best Books of 2013.' ?Slate, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor "To read Jeff Jackson's Mira Corpora is to enter into a trance state. A hypnotic, brutal, and lyric exploration of youth, trauma and the construction of memory, this novel is like nothing I've ever read before and is, unquestionably, one of my favorite books published this year." ?Laura van den Berg, Salon "A piercing howl of a book. Slyly seductive and utterly gripping ... [Jackson's] prose practically crackles and sparks. This punk coming-of-age story smolders long after the book is through." ?Slate "Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson's eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror films." ?Wall Street Journal "Episodic yet suspenseful, smeared with gutter detritus yet glittering with right-on apercus, the novel delivers both jolts to the spine and food for thought." ?Bookforum "A gutter punk Catcher in the Rye." ?Shelf Awareness "What's most compelling?and terrifying... is the originality and execution. [Mira Corpora] has a very cinematic quality to it, like the dreamscapes of a Lynch, or, better, a strange, filmic mash-up of Lord of the Flies, Demian, and House of Leaves, as directed by Harmony Korine." ?Impose "[A] mesmerizing debut, which reads like some cross between Bruno Schulz and the backstories of random characters from Penelope Spheeris' 1984 film Suburbia. It's the overarching sensibility that also puts Mira Corpora in a unique group of books that can only be dubbed Punk Lit. " ?Flavorwire "It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of certain cultural emblems. Present tense with a vengeance. I hope the book finds the serious readers who are out there waiting for this kind of fiction to hit them in the face." ?Don DeLillo "Jeff Jackson is one of the most extraordinarily gifted young writers I've read in a very long time. His strangely serene yet gripping, unsettling, and beautifully rendered novel Mira Corpora has within it all the earmarks of an important new literary voice." ?Dennis Cooper Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an inspired, dreamlike adventure by a distinctive new talent. Literary and inventive, but also fast-paced and gripping, Mira Corpora charts the journey of a young runaway. A coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories, featuring a colony of outcast children, teenage oracles, amusement parks haunted by gibbons, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar. With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and self-preservation across a startling, vibrant landscape. Jeff Jackson holds an MFA from NYU and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award?winning Collapsable Giraffe company.

A Novel

Jeff Jackson's Mira Corpora

"A wild roar of a novel . . . Writing about music is tricky. Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. But Jackson pulls off this near-impossible feat, pulling the reader past the velvet ropes into the black-box theaters and sweaty, sticky-floored stadiums." —Marisha Pessl, The New York Times Book Review An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience. Are these random copycat killings, or is something more sinister at work? Has music itself become corrupted in a culture where everything is available, everybody is a "creative," and attention spans have dwindled to nothing? With its cast of ambitious bands, yearning fans, and enigmatic killers, Destroy All Monsters tells a haunted and romantic story of overdue endings and unlikely beginnings that will resonate with anybody who’s ever loved rock and roll. Like a classic vinyl single, Destroy All Monsters has two sides, which can be read in either order. At the heart of Side A, “My Dark Ages,” is Xenie, a young woman who is repulsed by the violence of the epidemic but who still finds herself drawn deeper into the mystery. Side B, "Kill City," follows an alternate history, featuring familiar characters in surprising roles, and burrows deeper into the methods and motivations of the murderers. “At some point, I began to think of it as an ancient folk tale. It’s fine work, with a kind of scattered narrative set within a tight frame. Fast-moving throughout—fragile characters who suggest a bleak inner world made in their own collective image.” —Don DeLillo "Destroy All Monsters has a distinct pulse—a kind of heartbeat—that comes out of the rhythm of the prose, the inventiveness of the form, and the willingness of Jeff Jackson to engage the mysterious alchemy of violence, performance, and authenticity. This accomplished, uncanny novel is simultaneously seductive and unsettling." ?—Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others and Eat the Document “Surges with new-century anxiety and paranoia . . . A clear-eyed, stone-cold vision of what’s to come.” —Ben Marcus “Jeff Jackson is one of contemporary American fiction’s most sterling and gifted new masters. Destroy All Monsters . . . is a wonder to behold.” —Dennis Cooper

The Last Rock Novel

Destroy All Monsters

Novi Sad

Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an inspired, dreamlike adventure by a distinctive new talent.

Mira Corpora

the last rock novel

Destroy all monsters

Mark Carney

Bill Viola

Patrick Kelly

Doug Lauffer

Brian Swift

Nigel Brown

Darnell Johnson

Dominick Domasky

Anthony Fludd

Lispert Dowdell

Ed Kropf

Jesse Foster

Tommy Jones

Dennis Newton

Al Latronica

Shon Owens

Fred Simkovsky

Howard Upton

Chris Reber

Reece Anderson

Go Ask Your Dad challenges fathers from different faiths, cultures, and generations to come together and answer tough questions dads, children, and families face today. Fathers must learn from the past, be prepared now and in the future to discuss everything from sexual education and identity to what kind of career path a youth could choose. They need to have answers on how to handle negative things such as cyber-bullying and ISIS, but also must encourage good choices for health, happiness and a brighter tomorrow. The authors of Go Ask Your Dad don't claim to be perfect dads; they do promise, in this book, you will find valuable lessons from their mistakes and successes.

Questions, Answers, and Stories about Fathers, Fatherhood, and Being a Parent

Go Ask Your Dad

While many current analyses of democracy focus on creating a more civil, respectful debate among competing political viewpoints, this study argues that the existence of structural social inequality requires us to go beyond the realm of political debate. Challenging prominent contemporary theories of democracy, the author draws on John Dewey to bring the work of combating social inequality into the forefront of democratic thought. Dewey's 'pragmatic' principles are deployed to present democracy as a developing concept constantly confronting unique conditions obstructing its growth. Under structurally unequal social conditions, democracy is thereby seen as demanding the overcoming of this inequality; this inequality corrupts even well-organized forums of political debate, and prevents individuals from governing their everyday lives. Dewey's approach shows that the process of fighting social inequality is uniquely democratic, and he avoids current democratic theory's tendency to abstract from this inequality.

John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy

Equality Beyond Debate

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Though I had successful careers as a boat captain, in sales, and later as a small-business owner, due to my alcoholism and drug use, I threw every good thing I ever had away. I never could find the happiness I was searching for. Finally, after being in a very desperate situation and crying out to God, I received a powerful revelation of Jesus Christ and an extraordinary visitation of the Holy Spirit while I slept. This is the story of that glorious awakening and the Spirit-inspired devotionals gleaned from my joyous walk with the Lord.

The Testimony and Devotionals of Jeff Jackson

There Is Hope in Jesus Christ

Jeff Jackson was fifteen the first time he laid eyes on a beautiful girl that was thirteen. A few months later he asked Helen to "go steady" with him, and she said yes. Neither of them could have known the incredible journey that initial commitment to one another would generate throughout the rest of their lives. After becoming husband and wife while still teenagers, they relocated a few days after their wedding ceremony to the country where he was stationed as a member of the U.S. Army, and welcomed their first child a few months later. Their son was born with health issues that would almost take his life and require them to go on a breath-taking journey that included stops at U.S. Air Force bases scattered throughout the Pacific. The transition back to civilian life led to a spiritual transformation that moved him to become a pastor, serve the disabled, and lead his family to live in Southeast Asia for more than five years. A few years later, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness that generated life-trajectory changes that would eventually include serving refugees in a major Southwestern city, a variety of other health-related challenges, and many opportunities to pass on the truths he learned about life and identity along the way.

My Story and what I've Learned about Life and Identity Along the Way

Extended Horizon Reflections

Today is domination Friday, and Denise and her husband have big plans for their new submissive tonight. Crystal is an innocent young student whose full pink lips, fiery-red hair, and big round ass and has every head on campus turning her way, but none of them can give her the painful pleasure Madame and Master do. Over the last few months of endless mind-blowing sex, she’s discovered so much about who she is and what she wants, and now she wants to be in charge. Throughout her day of classes, she has to endure punishment handed down by her Master for being a bad girl but still tries out her powers of persuasion on some unsuspecting classmates. She’s not the only one getting it in today. Denise and her husband teach at the university and have their own special ways of passing the time between classes. Follow these three nymphos and their playmates throughout their day, ending up with their night of dominating bliss.

Book 1 of the RU Hooked Series

Hooked on Crystal

Total Clubfitting

The Principles and Techniques of Component Golf Club Assembly and Alteration

The Modern Guide to Golf Clubmaking

Tom W. Wishon

The most complete instruction guide for the assembly of golf clubs available today, The Modern Guide to Golf Clubmaking now has been released in its second edition to cover all the latest technical advances in golf equipment. Author Tom Wishon, president of Dynacraft Golf Products, Inc., the world's largest designer & producer of golf clubheads for custom clubmaking, & a recognized authority on golf equipment, explores the evolution of the golf club & then provides detailed instructions for the assembly of all types of golf clubs. Assembly procedures are covered in a simple "how to" fashion & illustrated by photograph. A must for the serious clubmaker or the hobbyist. Features more than 120 pages on golf shafts alone.

Jon Heshka

Written, reviewed and adopted by adventure, education and business professionals, this book is required reading for program managers, owner/operators, senior staff and anyone looking to make a career in the adventure industry. It will change the way you think about managing risk."--pub. desc.

Systems Planning for Outdoor Adventure Programs

Managing Risk

Jeff Jackson

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