Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 193
January 6, 2019
Chuckywolf
Just wanted to say that, really. But, to be more precise: excellent stack of books to be in:
These are my top five favorite books I read in 2018. @huntershea1 @CVHunt @RobertMcCammon @KatheKoja @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/Fci6sP9AMT
— Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews (@freeman_ac) January 6, 2019
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Turkish Mongrels
Hey, very cool:
@SGJ72’s Mongrel Turkish translation chosen as one of the Top 50 Novels of 2018 by online bookseller Idefix https://t.co/v3SUuBRjWk
January 4, 2019
Hello, I’m a _____
Finally, a text-driven meme. So cool:
Hello, I'm a professor in a movie, I only reach the main point of my lecture right as class is ending. Then I yell at students about the reading / homework as they leave.
— Rory Turnbull (@_roryturnbull) January 1, 2019
it goes and goes and goes . . .…
Best Articles from . . . Lately
Decided to do this as a list this time, instead of letting some of them auto-embed—felt messy, having both kinds of links/previews. So, here’s the best of what I’ve been reading lately:
“Crackdown on sexist ads outlaws bad female driver and inept dad commercials““Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook““What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary““How Horror Change…
January 2, 2019
When in Vegas…
still be thinking about your loved ones:
Ok I just experienced the nicest exchange with a stranger and think it’ll help to share: I was playing on the Mariah Carey slots in Vegas (naturally) and a friendly circa-mid-40s ish guy sat down to play on the machine next to me
— jack remmington (@jackremmington) January 2, 2019
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December 31, 2018
Best of 2018
Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy, I guess, to be saying what my favorite books of the year are.
However, I can slap a couple of novels up here that in no way could get submitted for a World Fantasy Award. So:
Novels
Lair…
December 30, 2018
Aquamania
Mapping the genome:
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Soon to be 47
Every time I go to stand up or lift something and I feel all creaky and broken, I think back to all this, and remember how much I prefer groany creaks and leftover breaks to stitches and recovery and PT:
ACL, meniscus, micro fracture
achilles rupture 1…
achilles rupture 2I keep these handy/on my phone, so that I won’t get lured into a pickup game of ball, or a hackysack circle—What can go wrong, right?—and so I won’t lift furniture or jump off this ledge beca…
