All the Pretty Elk Links for . . . right now
Review: Talking ball: Nice mention in a great article: Cool list: Excellent movie poster:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.
Some number of anthologies
Since I was updating everything else, I went ahead and stuffed what covers/links I could into the Anthologies-page here as well. That pages goes and goes and goes, man. I remember in grad school always being floored by how many stories Stephen Dixon had published—somewhere north of “300,” as I recall. I was at maybe
Upcoming Events
At least . . . I don’t know: they SHOULD all still be ‘upcoming?’ But I’ve missed a thing or three lately, so, you know, probably safer to just say ‘events that either already happened, are currently happen, or are maybe soon to happen’:
NON-book stuff from birdland
That I want to stash here so I can come back to it, be just as happy all over again:
Tales from Birdland
That, you know, maybe have something to do with a book or three I’ve written. And, since the subject line up there’s twitter, how about I just go ahead and start with YouTube—I forget who linked this to me (many someones, actually):
Nailed It
And, should that post go away somehow — I don’t know Instagram — here’s those nails again:
Recent Events & Interviews
And, man, there’ve been a few . . . thus the big dip in updates here at DT. But, trying to catch up: Functional Nerds Guessing this one’s posted somewhere:
Some elky & mannequin-y & werewolfy & ATBS-y lists
That’s kind of a lie. Things have been so fast & furious lately, I haven’t been able to track everything. But, I snagged a few: MANNEQUINS: ELK: MONGRELS: ATBS:
4 Write-Ups for 4 Different Things . . .
The Only Good Indians, in Jacksonville: Night of the Mannequins, at Scifi and Scary: “Attack of the 50 Foot Indian,” at Protean Depravity: And, finally, my old story “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” at Thresholds:
Release the Voting Hounds!
Though, to be honest, coming in behind Grady’s book would be just fine: it’s an amazing, amazing novel. Really, there a lot of novels and writers on here that I’m just honored to be on a fan-made ballot with:
Notre Dame
Doing a thing there this week: more here: https://english.nd.edu/events/2020/09/09/creative-writing-reading-series-ft-stephen-graham-jones/