Best Reads from Lately

Interview: Walter Hill on Dead for a Dollar Tunnel discovered under Egyptian temple may lead to Cleopatra’s tomb, archaeologist says – CNN Style This Guy Sends His Girlfriend Photoshopped Photos Whenever She Asks If Their Kids Are OK https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/fiction-saving-face https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61976369 Humanity’s earliest known cooked meal was a 6.5-foot fish | CNN

Birdlandia

(though, yes, it does seem a lot like Twitter might be in its death throes . . .)

Story/art stuff

For “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit” and “Solve for X”:

Apple Books

Let me talk about ten books by other writers, and also talk about some of my own. Here’s how to get there: http://apple.co/SGJRecommends And, how it looks: and again, later:

Earthdivers #2!

https://www.idwpublishing.com/news/articles/idw-rushes-back-to-print-earthdivers-comic-books-meet-overwhelming-consumer-demand https://bleedingcool.com/comics/printwatch-riddler-deadpool-secret-invasion-behold-behemoth-more/ And, a preview of that issue:

Halloween 2022

Just realized: same costume, 2012 and 2022: Big differences areL in 2012 I had painted-on eyebrows, and in 2012 I had to spraypaint my hair grey.

SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD!

Amazing. Never even suspected this one little bit. Such an honor. I mean, just to be on the ballot with these fine books and amazing writers. And, not sure where to find the ceremony now, but, here’s me, accepting it. I sent this in, never expected it to play:

Best Reads from Lately

https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/33411764/Jones_Done_to_Death.pdf ‘Forgotten archive’ of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church – Medievalists.net Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously believed: Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago — ScienceDaily Ancient Maya Cities Were Polluted With High Levels of Mercury |

Levar Burton Reads

“I Was a Teenage Space Jockey,” done wonderfully out loud—sounds like an arcade in there, and Levar Burton of course brings the lines alive:

Best of the Year So Far: for October

(hey, oops: WordPress seems to be messing up, here—what’s supposed to be an image galley is for some reason a vertical stack of images [on desktop]. hopefully it gets fixed. looks kind of ridiculous. apologies)

Recent interviews, podcasts, links

https://www.froggydelight.com/article-26123-Un_bon_indien_est_un_indien_mort.html https://litreactor.com/interviews/Stephen-Graham-Jones-on-Creating-His-Killer-New-Comic-Earthdivers https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1220 https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/entertainment/child-horror-fans-scary-creepy-halloween-tiktok-cec/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/10/stephen-graham-jones-comic-book-earthdivers-kill-columbus.html https://listverse.com/2022/10/11/ten-authors-who-may-be-the-next-stephen-king/ October Focus on Horror: Stephen Graham Jones – Somerset County Library System of New Jersey https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/stephen-graham-jones-quotes https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/stephen-graham-jones.html https://litreactor.com/columns/ten-authors-you-should-be-reading-right-now

Book link grab bag:

https://the-line-up.com/7-violent-books-that-remind-us-of-our-favorite-slasher-films https://rue-morgue.com/guest-post-author-ronald-kellys-ten-creature-feature-books-for-frightful-halloween-reading/ https://the-line-up.com/werewolf-horror-stories https://www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-Backlist-Coming-of-Age-Horror-/pid=9769004?_zs=Q1UiW1&_zl=3nie8 https://www.audible.com/blog/article-audiobooks-for-horror-movie-fans https://the-line-up.com/underrated-psychological-horror-books

So many Earthdivers links

each of which I’m thankful for (none of which I have time to properly thumbnail, if/when they don’t self-embed . . .): https://www.thepopverse.com/halloween-comics-books-horror-2022 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/printwatch-seconds-for-miracleman-kaya-dark-ride-miss-meow/ https://www.thepopverse.com/halloween-comics-books-horror-2022 https://www.polygon.com/2022/10/17/23408763/earthdivers-comic-christopher-columbus https://comicbook.com/comics/news/earthdivers-1-idw-original-review-jones/ https://www.horrorscreamsvideovault.co.uk/2022/10/horror-visionary-stephen-graham-jones-premieres-historical-slasher-earthdivers-in-october.html https://gayleague.com/recreating-the-world-in-earthdivers-1/ https://www.intrometendo.com.br/2022/10/earthdivers-1-hq-critica.html https://thegeekiary.com/comic-book-reviews-week-october-5-2022-batman-issue-128-x-men-red-issue-7-more/111689 Review: EARTHDIVERS #1 – Kill Columbus, Save the World – RO SCIENCE https://www.fandompost.com/2022/10/12/earthdivers-1-review/

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