Medium
Thanks to Erika Worth for the Good Indians write-up:
Best Reads from Lately
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Stay Where You Are, Stay Where You Are
My first ever PSA: Not unrelated: I WAS headed there to do some stuff, see some people, but, now: staying home.
New story / digital chapbook
Is that a thing, ‘digital chapbook?’ I’ve done it before, sort of, with “The Night Cyclist,” with “Chapter Six,” maybe a couple more. And now again, with “Attack of the Fifty Foot Indian.” Excited to watch it walk across the landscape:
Midsommar / X-Files?
Talking about season 1, episode 14, “Gender Bender.” You remember: the white-clay sort-of “Amish” one? Anyway, it seems to share a lot of the themes and imagery with Midsommar : free love/lots of sex, fun with distorted/altered perception, big serene meadows, but, too, a lot of the beats line up as well: there’s interlopers in
Oh, the fun you’ve have (online)
Which is to say: every step you take is into a rabbit hole. 2001 says “It’s full of stars,” but that’s not actually the future we’ve arrived at. It’s more: “It’s full of rabbit holes.” This is one, for me—the happiest one ever:
Mongrels Q&A
Amazing that I’m so lucky as to still be doing these FOUR YEARS after Mongrels came out, yes? And, the junkified study that’s my backdrop? It’s stacks of comic books and a stray basketball and a Galaga machine and 8-tracks and horror DVDs and a deer
Shades of Orange + Elk
Honored to be in this roundup—I too am excited for all of these, and have either already read them, or have them pre-ordered: