Stephen Graham Jones

Couple of Kind Reviews, and an Article

December 7, 2017 / news

You can maybe tell which book this one’s on, over at Unnerving: http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/12/06/Review-of-Last-Final-Girl-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones And then here’s a twofer over at Transmotion, for which Theo Van Alst and Billy J. Stratton actually deserve the credit: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/434/1144 Speaking of them/Transmotion, this is in that same issue: “Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart […]

Superstition Review

December 6, 2017 / news

New interview up: https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue20/interviews/stephenjones

Best of the Year so far: the December post

December 1, 2017 / bookish, comic books, movies/tv, music, slashers

Comic book cameo for Mongrels

November 28, 2017 / comic books, werewolves

Check it out: So cool. I mean, I know: my critical faculties are supposed to be rendered helpless from the surprise of seeing the yellow book drawn like this, but? That’s not why I like this comic book. Why I like this comic book is that it’s good comic-booking. Pablo D’Stair knows the medium, knows

Process

November 27, 2017 / craft, movies/tv

This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was

Twisted Sister & Alice Cooper & Tom Savini & Bobcat Goldthwait?

November 25, 2017 / music

I know, I know: this ever really HAPPENED? Apparently so. This isn’t some Mandela Effect thing, and we’re nowhere near April. Not sure how I never knew about this, but glad I do know. And, yeah, the song here’s maybe a little guitar-shy, but still, the video’s nothing but fun: I found it in this

The Plural of “Venus”

November 25, 2017 / craft

This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote: The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago in southwest France. Since its discovery in 1894, there has been much debate about the sex and whether he/she is

File under: Costumes I Need

November 25, 2017 / movies/tv

This is probably only funny if you grew up watching Perfect Strangers—”Perfect Stranger Things” feels like a Jeopardy! question to a mashup answer—but never mind all that. What matters here? This costume. I wonder how that face petals opens like that? Animatronic? Air? I mean, the spindly fingers are useless, but so what. And I

The Nine Circles of (Mis-)Usage Hell

November 21, 2017 / craft

I might heretically add a tenth level for the semicolon clueless. But, yes, I’d be adding it from the eighth circle, I suppose. Which is a fitting fate for me, and one I’m asking for every day, pretty much. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-linguistic-transgressions

Words per minute

November 20, 2017 / craft, etc

I dream of a word processor that throws a little a WPM gauge up in the right corner, so I can keep a close eye for when I’m backing off the throttle more than I should. Way back, when instant-messaging first came around? I used to write chat scripts to talk to different hardly-remote people,

Tethered by Letters

November 20, 2017 / etc

https://tetheredbyletters.com/author-qa-stephen-graham-jones/

Alt_Waylon

November 19, 2017 / music

Not that industrial rock (if that’s that term) album that turned up a while back, but a different arrangement (not sure about that word either) of a song I really thought I knew. It’s like that slowed-down “Born in the USA”—you hear the song all over again for the first time. Pretty excellent. And? Back

Impressions

November 18, 2017 / music

I forget who says it, but a while back someone was talking about how the good singers and musicians and actors, they can always do pitch-perfect impressions of their contemporaries. Maybe comedians too? Bet so. Actors, of course. Anyway, just stumbling upon this, from the year I was born. Merle, man, he so had everybody

Louise Erdrich: Hero

November 18, 2017 / bookish

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rumaan/louise-erdrich-great-american-novelist

William Colton Hughes out loud

November 15, 2017 / bookish

https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Least-of-My-Scars-Audiobook/B07611B9SF/

Weird question, Solid answer

November 13, 2017 / etc

Blood Business

November 12, 2017 / etc

Good time at Tattered Cover last night, with a whole TOC’s worth of us there—enough that we needed a spinner-wheel to figure out who got to read: [ photo: Catherine Spader ] Which? My number spun up. I had to borrow a woman from the audience’s reading glasses, since my arms are only so long, but

Shawn Kemp

November 9, 2017 / etc

In my weakest moments, I imagine that there’s some version of myself in some distant iteration of Earth, dunking like Shawn Kemp:

So cool

November 7, 2017 / movies/tv

This shot of Bruce the shark about to eat little Alex Kintner in #JAWS was cut from the film. pic.twitter.com/TpFXQAsn7Y — Stan Winston School (@SWinstonSchool) November 7, 2017

Hooded Justice

November 6, 2017 / comic books, slashers

Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night. How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Tunes and stories, paired up

November 5, 2017 / music

Very cool, what Boden’s doing. You know him from the covers of Three Miles Past and Sterling City:

Werewolves and trucks

November 5, 2017 / werewolves

So cool to see this sticker on a truck I used to have (a truck that I left in a field for a few years, but that now lives in the magazines): I’ll just leave this here for @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/ixGnP3PLNK — Constantino Martinez (@TinoBeano) November 5, 2017

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