National Book Festival part 2
When the original post isn’t even called “Part 1″—didn’t know more was coming in. But, sure enough, here’s a recording of the full panel: (maybe this is part of the above one? no time to check . . .)
Brooklyn Book Festival
Was a blast: Night before was the big party. SA Cosby and me just before: Though, later that night, just before it closed I need some of this, of course: After another run to Chipotle (next day), I stumbled on: Then it was the panel, with Christine Li and Amber Spark, moderated by Tobias Caroll:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/22/doerner-fir-tree-on-fire-saved https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/culture/ai-chatgpt-college-cheating-medieval.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta’s use of chatbots with children | CBC Music An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution | New Scientist Horror ‘It Girl’ Gretchen Felker Martin on DC
National Book Festival
Great time. Got to talk to Scott Turow a bit the night before—and right after having finished Presumed Guilty! Got to hang at the Jefferson Building (I think?) with Paul Tremblay and Agustina Bazterrica: Whatever building or place it was, it was right across from this: I thought that was the White House, but my
Bourbon Penn
Thanks to Ellen Datlow for catching this. Looks . . . familiar? cool? weird? All of the above:
Buffalo Hunter Hunter lists, reviews, more
Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ by Stephen Graham Jones | MPR News The Buffalo Hunter Hunter – Ariel’s Reads – Book Review – Armed with A Book https://www.thepopverse.com/literary-stephen-king-graham-jones-horror-lit-if-it-bleeds-we-read https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-can-you-stop-a-country-from-happening https://www.reedfaster.com/2025/06/americas-worst-dream-buffalo-hunter.html?m=1 Vampires, Identity, and Survival: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners – Signal Horizon Blackfeet Blood – Fort Worth
Floored. Amazed. Honored. Wow.
Man, who’d have ever thought? Might need to figure out how to frame this, put it on the wall so I can always remember that impossible things can actually happen: Many thanks to Greg Greene for the initials heads-up about this—was at breakfast with a friend, just thinking it’s another normal day. Maybe bit hot,
Grab bag of links, lists, reviews
“Grab bag” doesn’t quite cut it, though. “Dump truck,” maybe? Anyway, what with writing a novel and going on book tour, I kept putting off slapping all these up here. But, I mean, this, this post, is the easy part. Filing all these with their respective books, that’s gonna take me more than a few
Best Reads from Lately
Stacked em too high last time. So, pulling the trigger early, this Saturday: Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ | Harvard University | The Guardian We can’t keep making videogame stories for players who aren’t paying attention to
Best Reads from Lately
would ask how these build up so fast. but, it’s probably from me, you know, reading a lot of stuff? https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/grammar-tips-from-a-thirty-eight-year-old-with-an-english-degree What a gene tweak in mice says about how we’re different from Neanderthals – The Washington Post Stone tool discovery offers new clue in mystery of ancient humans living on Indonesian island | CNN
When Words Collide
Couldn’t have been a better time. Keynote yesterday, interview and forever signing line today. If more pics show up, I’ll sneak them into this post.