Author name: SGJ

Thank you, Native Lady Warrior: Which (above) is the spoiler-FREE review. Below, the spoilery one: An honor. You bet I subscribed.

Over at Kendall Reviews (this tweet leads to a discount code…). Clock that beautiful cover, and imagine all the illustrations throughout this oversize wonder of an edition:

Well, The Line-Up, anyway—an interview:

for your drive home on a Friday afternoon (for when you’re not in motion…). but, seriously, this is just a blip, a temporary thing: Native Lit actually needs variety / doesn’t need one person ‘speaking for all’ or ‘perched at the top’ or any of that ridiculousness. or? if it has to be one of

Or . . . doesn’t Pynchon call it the ‘yo-yo’ in V., maybe? The Only Good Indians, first being one thing, then another—both of which I like. I mean, it’s kind of a werewolf, yes? Shine the right light on it, it becomes #1 in horror. Under a different light, it’s #1 in Native lit.

Talking with Victor LaValle: this was my whole plan with this book. If I could just somehow maneuver everything such that he and I could have an excellent conversation, then . . . what else could I ask for, right?

For July! So cool. I would have used an exclamation point in that subject line/heading up there, but I feel like I’m becoming someone with just one volume setting. So, how about instead . . . bold? No, no: LARGE: APPLE BOOKS

Such a fun conversation—I got to talk about books!

Kind of a special-to-me write-up—”Shaney” (click through to read):

Wow, cool, didn’t even know this was a thing. But they break it down nicely, and a certain elk book sneaks to the top:

So honored by a read like this:

Article here: https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/07/16/stephen-graham-jones-the-only-good-indians-interview/

Such a fun conversation:

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