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Audible interview
Which — not an interview you can HEAR. I mean, yeah, yes, you CAN hear it. But, “at” Audible is what I’m meaning, or trying to mean, before I do my thing and problematize it to meaninglessness . . .
Indigenous People’s Day
Owl Goingback says it best: And, I’ll update this should more of these lists show up, but here’s the two I’ve caught so far:
EW’s Halloween List
Honored to have an elky book in Emily M. Danforth’s EW stack: Talking lists, too, I think I have a book on all but one of Goodreads’ Halloween wrap-up lists?
All the Pretty Elk Links for . . . right now
Review: Talking ball: Nice mention in a great article: Cool list: Excellent movie poster:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.
Tales from Birdland
That, you know, maybe have something to do with a book or three I’ve written. And, since the subject line up there’s twitter, how about I just go ahead and start with YouTube—I forget who linked this to me (many someones, actually):
Nailed It
And, should that post go away somehow — I don’t know Instagram — here’s those nails again:
Some elky & mannequin-y & werewolfy & ATBS-y lists
That’s kind of a lie. Things have been so fast & furious lately, I haven’t been able to track everything. But, I snagged a few: MANNEQUINS: ELK: MONGRELS: ATBS:
4 Write-Ups for 4 Different Things . . .
The Only Good Indians, in Jacksonville: Night of the Mannequins, at Scifi and Scary: “Attack of the 50 Foot Indian,” at Protean Depravity: And, finally, my old story “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” at Thresholds:
Release the Voting Hounds!
Though, to be honest, coming in behind Grady’s book would be just fine: it’s an amazing, amazing novel. Really, there a lot of novels and writers on here that I’m just honored to be on a fan-made ballot with:
Some elk-heady, um, people
That I’ve stumbled onto the last couple weeks. The Bottom — who actually has a horse-head that, in the dark, could maybe be a cow elk — is from the manga A Midsummer Night’s Dream done by Kate Brown, and the deer-woman’s from Carmen Maria Machado’s The Low, Low Woods. Presumably she wrote something like