Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 198
December 12, 2018
Booked on Demon Theory
My 2006 novel, not this site. Excited (terrified also) to cue it up. Always good, listening to Livius and Robb:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y3zee-a18e4f…
December 11, 2018
PKD
In February 1974, whilst recovering from dental surgery, something profound and inexplicable happened to author Philip K Dick that changed his life forever. Was it an illness, a psychotic reaction, or something truly mystical?
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) December 11, 2018
This is the exegesis of Philip K Dick… pic.twitter.com/icvUDVQCzR
well-illustrated/said thread. PKD’s my hero…
Blurbs
I remember not long after House of Leaves came out, with Lethem’s way cool blurb on back, that there was a smallish article somewhere, where he (Lethem) was saying his agent was making him not do blurbs for six months or a year. Just because he, being him, wanted to do them all, of course, and that was clogging up the works. And he’s all of us—me anyway: I want to give each writer, each book whatever small boost I can.
You can’t, though, I’ve found. …
December 10, 2018
Best Articles from . . . Lately
I used to screencap these into the monthly best-of posts, but when I started doing those as galleries they ended up getting shrunk to illegibility, so I lazily & loserly gave up. So, this is me trying to reverse that: the best articles I’ve been reading, that I can A) still clearly rememberer, and B) actually FIND. So, some of them self-embed, don’t ask me how, and the others I’ll just put the title/link up in a list, below. That doesn’t mean they…
December 9, 2018
Throwback Horror
Way back. First two seem to pretty much be ‘fun with effects’/let’s see what we can do. But Frankenstein, man, there’s a lot of horror seeds getting planted there, that are still blooming all these years later.
1896
1908
1910
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VHS Book Covers
Not sure why, but I’ve been stashing these as I stumble onto them. Will add more as I find them, probably. They’re kind of cool. The Darnielle is more like the actual iridescent tape from a VHS, but still, it’s kind of on the same shelf:
And, guess this is kind of the same? Taking a streaming show, ripping it from DVD, transferring to VHS, then rigging together a make-do cover for it? Anyway, cool. Found it here (if there’s a better way to link Imgur, which I …
Tattered Cover
Hey, Tattered Cover (Colfax) has a green room now! So cool. Anyway, was a good time, answering questions about Mechanical Animals with Selena Chambers, Jason Heller (editors of this), Molly Tanzer, and Carrie Vaughn. Really, Molly and Carrie and me, we’re on stage so much together we’ve pretty much got a routine, by now. And it’s always fun. This is us after it was all over, posing by the chalkboard upstairs, already bundled up for wherever it was we were go…
#1 on my Wishlist
Beautiful Hand Axe Knapped Around Fossil Shell https://t.co/QRs6EykvzH via @MAACambridge pic.twitter.com/z3ux9OCUFW
— PaleoAnthropology+ (@Qafzeh) December 9, 2018
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December 8, 2018
Couple New Ones
Neither actually new, but both getting to me yesterday: Sovereign Traces has a piece of Mongrels in it, courtesy of the amazing Delicia Williams (artist), and Fortune Smiles I already read, of course, and really dug—one of the stand-out collections from recent, or any, years—but got to hang with Adam some last night, thanks to Lighthouse in Denver, so came away with an even cooler copy. And, speaking of last night: great event, great reception, wonderful people to talk t…
