CrimeReads
Honored to have an elky book in this mix:
Elk Audio
Which — not talking about a bugle or a cow call, but the audiobook of The Only Good Indians. It’s not got an excellent actor, voice actor, all-around-everything:
Unstuck
Been stuck so many times, but never once thought of this. Pretty cool. Got to have rims you can pass a cargo strap through. And a board. But you can usually dig that kind of stuff up from the bed, behind the seat, some old broke down house you walk to:
Coode Street in the Afternoon
Or, well, for me it was 11:45pm, taking my dog for a walk. It’s my editor Joe Monti. Excellent stuff:
My COVID Story
Which is the title of this series of interviews / this project, I believe. Happy to have helped the students at Watershed here in Boulder:
Netgalleys for the UK Only Good Indians!
Get em here: https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/193037
Cargill’s Horror list
Hundred percent agree with all of these. When I teach my horror courses, all of these bulletpoints (and a few more) are where we land:
On Order
Hopefully this is all over before this gets to me (ordered it a week ago), but, if not, I’ll be the coolest dude in the cereal aisle:
Gemini
Very cool to be part of this line-up over at LitReactor by Sadie Hartmann: And, any mention of “Gemini” of course gets this song in my head:
Best Reads from Lately
some of these seem to be auto-embedding just with a header-img, now. but: seems to click through. https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/23/indian-country-set-for-historic-showdown.asp?fbclid=IwAR22KYb_gVA7rV-ULC_2fP3cZmJvpJPlYv2cD3_2nJ9REjeFmPtLJLfjE60 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/09/outsider-stephen-king-adaptations/ https://theoutline.com/post/8782/the-sopranos-as-horror https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emails-from-my-childrens-school-before-8-00-am-during-the-covid-19-crisis https://bookriot.com/2020/02/27/dark-academia-books/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8262295/Pentagon-declassifies-officially-releases-three-UFO-videos.html https://www.businessinsider.in/science/research/news/ancient-tools-found-in-india-suggest-the-toba-supervolcano-eruption-didnt-leave-humanity-on-the-brink-of-extinction/articleshow/74313715.cms Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles | Literary Hub https://theconversation.com/fast-evolution-explains-the-tiny-stature-of-extinct-hobbit-from-flores-island-124747 Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made
Men’s Journal
Hey, 1 of 3. That might even be cooler than 7 of 9? (this, of course, can’t be true, as nothing is cooler than Seven):
Cemetery Dance Gets Elky
Y’know, I should have had a character in this novel walk into a room, take a kind of sense-reading, then the camera zooms in close to their face for a Samuel Jackson moment, so they can say, “It’s feeling kind of elky in here . . .” Anyway, rocking-cool excellent amazing write-up from Sadie Hartmann:
What’s the World Like After Corona?
This has been kind of a default question I keep getting asked lately, which makes perfect sense: it’s the question on ALL our minds. And, my default answer’s pretty much that I don’t know. But I can guess. Except—quick qualifier—my guesses have nothing to do with economic recovery or collapse, second waves, foreign travel, whether
#SummerScares
Video-thing. Could there be cooler art? Under this video, the link to the HWA playlist. And here‘s the landing page.
Locus, Paula Guran, and an Elk Walk into a Bar . . .
and this amazing-cool over-the-top unexpected review is the result:
Zooming to the Rescue
Not just Zoom, either. Over the past few weeks, I bet I’ve done just about every platform, program, site, service, from Bluejeans to WebEX, Crowdcast to Streamyard. But, the same way Skype USED to be the default-term for your Jetson-y video call, so, now, “Zoom” seems to be. The fact that it’s a real and
Crowdcasted
I’m thinking this’ll show up on YouTube or somewhere before too long. Will slip a link in here (actually, RIGHT here) when/if there’s a link to slip. Until then, some screenshots from during: