Calgary, here I come
With Jeff VanderMeer:
Best reads from lately
We fact-checked Trump’s recent news conference : NPR Review: Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones Tequila https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/pronghorn-texas-fastest-mammal https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/martin-amis-tina-brown-memorial-service-novelist How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/africa/toba-supervolcano-early-human-migration-africa-scn/index.html Sydney Sweeney on Fame, Euphoria, and the Pressure of Paying the Bills World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast | Palaeontology | The Guardian Deciphering the Denisovans
SAT-land
Been hearing for about a year that some of my books have been in the PSAT and SAT—but nobody’s smuggled a snapshot out. Guessing . . . phones aren’t exactly allowed into those testing environments? But, finally: And, in case that tweet or twitter itself goes away, here’s the image, via Jay Slayton-Joslin:
Making Chihuahuas!
@loulous.cocina Skyview Drive-In Movie Theatre Chihuahua!! #drivein #chihuahua #snack #movietheatre #moviesnack #tostada #westtexas #lamesa #texas #texmexfood #easyrecipe #skyview ♬ Good Vibes (Instrumental) – Ellen Once Again Also:
All the Teen Slasher links
Reviews, lists, interviews–not cleaned up to properly embed, just dropped into the waters, asked to swim in this post (as I have copyedits I need to start today. Buffalo Hunter Hunter‘s not cleaning itself up): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/books/review/stephen-graham-jones-interview-i-was-a-teenage-slasher.html https://www.tvguide.com/news/best-new-horror-books/ The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far) (Esquire) https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2787-6-new-books-recommended-by-readers-this-week https://www.audible.com/newreleases https://parade.com/books/best-reads/best-new-book-releases-this-week-2024-july-16-22 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/horror-books-for-the-summer https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/book-list/12-summerween-picks-for-the-perfect-summer-scare https://www.bookbub.com/readworthy/horror/2024/8 https://bookriot.com/new-horror-books-july-2024/ http://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2024/07/book-review-i-was-teenage-slasher-by.html https://youtu.be/Pw89CPa-d8Y?si=WeXQux10ydeEsGwZ
I Miss Them Each One
So many that aren’t here anymore. They all break my heart. But, speaking of, everyone should read Howard Waldrop’s “The Ugly Chickens.”
Tour Digest
All these weeks later, can I still find some snapshots to document I Was a Teenage Slasher winging it from NYC to San Diego? Let’s see, let’s see: NYC Launch-day was shooting video for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter at Simon & Schuster, but ALSO seeing Tolly and Ambs in the main display case at ground-level
1K Plus on Goodreads!
Told myself when I Was a Teenage Slasher came out—not a good idea to stand some metric/threshold like this up, I know, but . . . it’s hard to do only smart things?—that I’d look at its review count on Goodreads a month out, and, if it’d crossed 1000, I’d be thrilled beyond thrilled, as
Best Reads from Lately
https://georgiasouthern.libguides.com/wraparoundsouth/summer2018/eastern-kentucky-in-four-figures The Devil’s Rejects movie review (2005) | Roger Ebert A Brief History of Time Travel – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.christophergolden.com/post/to-those-of-you-nodding-along-with-tom-monteleone KUOW – Seattle crows are so smart, they’re challenging what we know about evolution Silver Linings of Being Bitten by a Great White Shark – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Hollywood’s Newest Money-Making Scheme Is… Books