Author name: SGJ

Great Lines from Recent (to me) TV

Guess I should have stacked these into animated gifs—take up less space that way. But, in lieu: Man in the High Castle s.4 Breaking Bad s . . . .2, I think? Dracula ep2 ( and, um, yeah, I just pause stuff on my television screen, creep up with my phone, angle it around to […]

Hundred Elk

All waiting over at Goodreads: Hey, cool, looks like it capped out at over 4500, and the 100 copies are already hitting folks’ mailboxes . . .

The Unexpurgated Version

Of that “Being Indian is Not a Superpower” bit Electric Literature ran a while back. And, really? It’s not that unexpurgated. I just like the challenge of trying to spell that word, and then also using it in a sentence.

Best Reads from Lately

Once again, I let this get to be an unwieldy enough stack of links/reads that to slow down and make them into a pretty and proper list would keep me from revising the novel I’m revising. So, in all their likely awkwardness, with apologies for some embedding, some being URLS, some shuddering into some completely

Ye Olde English

Well, as I understand it, “Ye” is really a typographic artifact, not an actual word. But it’s fun to say. Anyway, this looks to be killer:

First 2020 novel for me

Which is to say: DONE with the novel I’ve been writing the last seven or eight weeks. Man. Slasher, of course. What else is there? This pretty much sums it up:

All Things Jaws

Didn’t mean it to happen, but a post I started on here a few years ago became kind of a dumping ground for all things The Shining. Or, for weird things The Shining? Talking about this. But, more intentionally now, I’m going to start piling all my Jaws stuff here. And? There’s always more Jaws

Distinction’d

Hey, this is especially crazy for a dude who never even had two-year college on the horizon, much less a PhD: Too, was looking for the announcement from two or three years ago when I became the Ivena Baldwin Chair of English (though I chair nothing—this is an endowed chair thing), but can’t find it.

Titan! UK!

Excellent cool wonderful amazing news I can finally share:

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