Wow, couple of AMAZING-cool lists
to have lucked onto:
NYT piece
Just seeing the physical edition . . . sort of. Front page of the Arts section, very cool:
otherppl
I’M an otherppl! So excellent, talking with Brad Listi, and such an honor to be the Damien of it all — episode 666:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-a-texas-oil-boom-busts-11594440031 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatch/how-two-waves-of-coronavirus-cases-swept-through-the-texas-panhandle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-14/ford-bronco-is-back-after-o-j-simpson-made-it-famous https://tv.avclub.com/timothy-omundson-on-his-seinfeld-start-and-getting-back-1844335402 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: An Explainer – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://hobbylark.com/comic-books/Who-Are-The-Native-American-Heroes-of-Marvel-Comics https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/obituaries-for-the-parts-of-me-that-have-died-inside https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/world/scientists-fossil-mystery-tanystropheus-scn-trnd/index.html https://apple.news/AOOt5__SrRjafuZm4rYVYjA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-final-frontier A rare giant shark now sits in an ice block at the Smithsonian, allowing researchers to hopefully unravel clues about its evolution – CNN
The Many Faces of Horror
Four of them, anyway. Great fun — wonderful to sort of meet Christina Henry, too:
Humanity in Horror panel
Was such a great time. Didn’t get recorded, won’t get posted, but, here’s the poster, and a couple of tweets, anyway: And, as happens, I was wearing a new mask for a bit of it:
The Elk are Doing Fine
Or, one of them is, anyway. I don’t have access to / don’t ask for bookscan numbers for The Only Good Indians, but, if Amazon’s stack of new-release horror means anything, then: Good Indians has been pretty steady at #1 for its first month. Or, today’s the one-month anniversary, at which point it’s not a
1001 Sleepless Nights
on Goodreads? Anyway, I remember years back, when I first stumbled onto Goodreads, I looked up some of the books I knew, had read recently, was reading, just to see how the wind was blowing. Turns out: every which direction. Buffets, lulls— crazy tornadoes that wind up whole crowds of people and also doldrums so