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
Kingcast is live!
Here, or, you know: wherever you get your podcasts, I imagine. And, another sample. This one gross:
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:
Recent interviews, panels
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/10/24/5-things-know-about-horror Now that’s scary: Horror novels are having a new golden age
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