elk

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:

LA Times

Can there be anything cooler than being a staff selection at Powell’s?

Kick this kind of stuff up, which is way cool:

Thanks, Kat J!

I’m not on it, but I guess I am:

Thanks to Emma J. Gibson for the headsup on this one:

An honor, to be in the hands of excellent writers:

Washington Post Salon LitHub Craft Literary Teamasthers

Well, BOOK launch. We’d need a fairly large catapult or somesuch to get an actual elk airborne. And also we’d probably need a whole different set of morals, and city codes would have to be relaxed, and — let’s just let the elk be elk out in the trees, and we’ll all be decent people,

Probably the last of these “before” lists, since the novel drops tomorrow . . . Goodreads: WCVB:

With Victor LaValle! Which I may have already posted, but this animation didn’t exist then:

With Richard Z. Santos — great guy, excellent writer (his new novel, Trust Me, is really good). Too? I’m maybe the only writer this season to be wearing a Waylon shirt: