My Favorite Frame of TV Lately
It’s from the “Black Jeopardy” sketch with T’Challa on it:
Oh yeah: I’m not on Facebook anymore
Guess the body of this post is pretty much in the subject line up there. Maybe again someday? Who knows. Just deactivated, didn’t delete. Wanted to see what the other side is like. But I’m still in birdland, should anybody need me. And I’m on Litsy as well, having fun. Not on Instagram, though. Reason?
LARB on Mapping the Interior
Billy Stratton on Mapping, for LA Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-habitations-of-specters-on-stephen-graham-joness-mapping-the-interiorÂ
This is Horror
Wow, too cool—Mapping the Interior lucks into a This is Horror Award: This Is Horror Awards 2017: The Winners
Mapping the Classroom
End of class board full of notes after students shared articles and podcasts on the fabulous Stephen Graham Jones @SGJ72 – as we discuss connections to #MappingTheInterior ! #amteaching #amreading #horror pic.twitter.com/xOXAeAttAq — Crystal of Steel (@colearydavidson) April 18, 2018
This week’s mail
Three books I have stories in (Devil got kind of damaged en route, but, I mean: shipwreck, right?).
The Tax Man Cometh . . .
Have had an accountant for a few years, am now an LLC, but I never understood taxes even partway until this guy broke it down into bite-sized chunks for me and the world: Tax tips for freelancers from a comic book writer
Cool review of the Critical Companion
by Eric Gary Anderson, at / from Western American Literature: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/685945
‘Tis True
@SGJ72’s typewriter. pic.twitter.com/yGatOBZuuF — Jason Truitt (@JasonHGTruitt) April 14, 2018
A Quiet, Well-Lighted Place
The Shining is great and amazing and permanent and iconic and all that good stuff, of course, but one thing it has going for it that very, very few other stories ever get is that it instantly activates our imagination—immediately upon hearing the premise, we put ourselves in that situation of being winter caretaker for
The Horror Crossroads
@AlanBaxter was cool enough to rig this together, as I’ve got the words, but not the photoshoppery:
At that Customer Service Switchboard
Man, this post plus the last one, you’d think I just troll these here internets, waiting for something that, to me, evokes one of my books. But? This one. C’mon. Having to work the call center for a defunct video game? That’s exactly the premise of The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti: Nintendo support will
Demon Theory Days
are still not over. And, don’t mean to fake like it was the first book to pretend to be a novelization of a film (well, trilogy) that never happened—think Lem beat us all to that, somewhat, and I’m halfway remembering Coover having done something in that arena—but, glad to see it’s still going on:
The Darkest Part
I was sitting in a hotel room in Santa Fe, there for . . . I think I was doing a Percival Everett thing, along with Gerald Vizenor and I forget who-all. Been a year or two, or five or six. Anyway, Ellen Datlow got hold of me last-minute, said she needed a story yesterday
Eight years back
Wending my way through my school’s book-ordering stuff, and I thought, Wait, wonder if I’m in here. Turns out I am. Or, I was, eight years ago. I remember that year, too. I was wondering if I’d ever have another book out. Never really thought I’d have fifteen or sixteen out. Cool. Here’s to eight
Shadowhunters & Mongrels
Hey, could be the Shadowhunters season 3 writers have maybe been glancing off a certain yellow book, yes? Very cool:
Zombie Sharks
Cool S.T Cartledge write-up on Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth: Book Review: Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones
Late March in Bookland
First two books I bought this morning, just out today: These are two of my by-far favorite writers. Excited. And, just read the first two Longmire books—missing the television series—and, man, Craig Johnson, he can flat out write. If you scratch the names off the covers, I couldn’t tell him and James Lee Burke apart.
Unnverving Mag & Mongrels
Kind words from Eddie Generous, over at Unnerving: https://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/03/06/Review-of-Mongrels-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones
The Little Yellow Book that Could
Nice Mongrels write-up: http://www.cedarhollowhorrorreviews.com/2018/03/mongrels-by-stephen-graham-jones_24.html Too, kind words/rundown for & of Ellen Datlow’s Black Feathers, in which I have a story, the title stolen straight from Robert E. Howard and Joe. R. Lansdale: https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/black-feathers-dark-avian-tales-an-anthology-by-ellen-datlow-book-review/
Birchbark
Always had the dream of walking through Birchbark Books some fine afternoon. Until then, being there in a book’ll definitely do: What to #read? Who to read? Start here. This is just one section from @birchbarkbooks at #NALS2018 @NALSymposium @SGJ72 @TereseMarieM #LouiseErdrich @heyteebs #LeslieSilko @badndns #louisowens @LeAnneHowe #SusanPower #GordonHenry and more: pic.twitter.com/eNWQ4CB1bh — TVAyyyy (@TVAyyyy)
Devil and the Deep
Ellen Datlow’s new anthology, which I’m fortunate enough to have waded into, way past my depth. Here’s a few of us saying some stuff about it over at Kirkus: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/how-ellen-datlow-and-authors-i-devil-and-deep-blue/