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“Several years ago, Jollett began writing Hollywood Park, the gripping and brutally honest memoir of his life. Published in the middle of the pandemic, it has gone on to become one of the summer’s most celebrated books and a New York Times best seller.”

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“Mikel Jollett’s searching Hollywood Park charts the musician’s odyssey from early childhood in Synanon, a California cult, to backwoods poverty to Stanford. A Generation X This Boy’s Life. Hollywood Park is a triumph.”

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“Mikel Jollett, front man for The Airborne Toxic Event, has written a memoir that is dangerous, immediate and lyrical from the jump. It can sound airy to say, ‘Music saved my life.’ In Mr. Jollett’s case, it seems also to be true.”

- Wall Street Journal

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"Jollett has an innate sensitivity and eye for detail. You sense that any novel he’d write would be a good one, a Denis Johnson-esque tale rife with drifters and drugs. He recognizes literature as what the critic Kenneth Burke called equipment for living."
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"Jollett was accepted into the prestigious Yaddo artists’ retreat to work on a novel in 2005, but he launched the Airborne Toxic Event instead. He began Hollywood Park in 2015. The book is a moving, deeply introspective reckoning with his early trauma."
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