#SGJDay1
#SGJDay Such an unexpected honor for so many readers to have pulled this off—thank y’all so, so much. A once-in-a-career thing, maybe? Anyway, even got picked up by news outlets: And, I can’t possibly paste all the coolness in here—it’s all under that “#SGJDay” link up top—but here’s me in it:
Recent interviews, podcasts
https://www.montanapress.net/post/rez-gothic-stephen-graham-jones https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/09/06/stephen-graham-jones-slashes-his-way-texas-literary-history https://www.facebook.com/litcleveland/videos/374698455696741 https://www.kvcrnews.org/2024-07-14/stephen-graham-jones-on-his-novel-i-was-a-teenage-slasher
Best reads from lately
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/95910-tim-o-connell-takes-the-reigns-at-saga-press.html Ancient DNA adds to evidence debunking theory of Easter Island collapse | CNN https://link.lithub.com/view/602eabc6180f243d654b95celuktr.1hwp/d8c149cc https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-rise-of-indigenous-horror-how-a-fiction-genre-is-confronting-a-monstrous-reality-1.5323428 https://www.livescience.com/animals/bees-wasps/parasitic-horror-wasp-that-bursts-from-a-fly-s-abdomen-like-an-alien-xenomorph-discovered-in-mississippi-backyard Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows Shakespeare was an Alien!. It’s the only possible conclusion… | by Eric Armstrong | Medium
Robert McCammon to the rescue
Thanks to Benjamin Percy for the heads-up. And, man, if only I had the nerve to ever do something like this. I’ll jump off whatever, walk into dark places, stick my fingers in light sockets, all that. But, this? This is far beyond consideration, for me. Not because it’s rap. Because it’s doing something remotely
Columbus, Ohio
Thanks for bringing me here, Columbus Metro Library. Will put these in before/during/after order: It was exciting getting to see @sgj.bsky.social speak at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in the company of my friends from HWA Ohio. He even signed my book afterwards and told me my shirt was cool! (It's the anime-style shirt of a
Tucson, Tucson, Tucson
Man, what a cool city, a cool landscape. Sort of fell for it. Couple pics from being there (WLA), via Billy Stratton and Theo Van Alst.
The Heart of Columbus
Well, I mean: seemed like a pretty grand subject line? Anyway, I’m there Sunday, 2pm:
Kris Kristofferson
Been saying for a few years that I’m not sure how to live in a world without Kris Kristofferson. Guess now we all have to figure that one out. But we’ve still got the art he left. It’s not going away any time soon. Good obit at Rolling Stone. Dude lived a life, and left