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The Trump Way

Just stashing these here so I can remember them: [ other Trump-stuff on site, here: “The Day before the Earth Stood Still“, “Trump” ]

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The Day Before the Earth Stood Still

We’re all holding our breath. For four years. But we’ll lose it a few times, I know, from shouting. We’re going to need a lot of shouting, and a lot of watching. Anyway, there’s hope, too. This is last night: However, we can’t forget that this kind of thing is now happening as well: In Case You Missed It The Senate voted 51 to 48: 1. To end coverage for preexisting conditions, veterans benefits, and aid to rural hospitals. 2. To remove discrimination protection for women in healthcare. 3. Against the provision allowing children to remain on their parent’s insurance till the age of 26. 4. To cut off funding for the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). 5. Against ACA contraceptive coverage and maternity care provision. 6. To direct committees to send budget legislation to defund and repeal the Affordable Care Act. For those who get health insurance through work, no pre-existing conditions. Lifetime caps for coverage are back for everyone. Real and disastrous actions are being taken that will affect more than just the 20-30 million people who will lose their health care coverage and the 3 million people who will lose their jobs. Despite their assertions of this being an action to “repeal and replace,” no viable alternative plan has been proposed. The House votes Friday. As of this moment, no replacement exists.

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The Horror (Study)

Which is to say: where I write. Well, where I write when I’m writing in my study. Where I write when I’m writing in my office (on campus) is here. But, this is home. The door of it, anyway: And this is me standing in the middle of it all, trying to go as fast/slow as the arrow on my phone tells me. And, yes, there’s four five (just saw another) Waylon things in this pano: And, yeah, I clipped off half of the comic book shelf. Oh well. Here’s some of what you couldn’t see—some of my favorites:

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Mongrels tpb

Got me an early copy. Same bat-cover, same bat-words—but more of them: an essay-thing at the end, and a reader’s guide as well. And, I don’t have a scale this fine, but this book is light, man. Don’t tie your balloon to it and set on the bench beside you at the park, because the next time you look over, it’s gone. Anyway, official drop date is the 24th, here—no, I don’t know for sure when books started ‘dropping’ like albums—but this is what it looks like:  

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Mapping the Interior

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you’d rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost. Out from Tor June 20th: iBooks Kindle Nook Macmillan   Stephen Graham Jones’s chilling Mapping the Interior is like a twisted YA tale for adults, part S.E. Hinton and part Shirley Jackson. It’s about being young and broke, and that moment when you first wonder who your parents really are. The answers are out there, but they will leave you haunted forever —Richard Kadrey   Stephen Graham Jones’s Mapping the Interior is a triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant. You will not be unmoved. You will not be unaffected. It’s a ghost story in the truest, darkest, most melancholy sense. Stephen knows we are haunted by our parents, our families, and our shared pasts as much as we are haunted by ourselves; haunted by who were were, who we become, and who  . . . → → →

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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXIII

To be filed under Things That Floor Me: that I’m still doing this, seven months later. I mean, that Mongrels is still getting passed around online like this. And? The trade’s out in . . . seventeen days now, I guess. With some cool post-scripty stuff at the end: essay/note _ reading guide fun. Anyway, before getting to the pass-arounds, there’s all the pass-arounds that came before: click to get the dropdown one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three I propose that “eviler” is a completely real word: Good to be in a stack with Josh, Paul, David, and Chloe—of them, Chloe is the only one I don’t know: Even still got the Santa-receipt in it. Cool, thanks: These books just killed a zebra:   And: first sighting of the trade out in the wilds. Of Australia:   Though, I should say: I’d be happy being the jester, too.   Always happy to be friggin: Little-known hardly secret probably not just super interesting fact: at the Locus Awards, Nic and me got to sign at adjacent tables.   Another reminder that I need to dial this audiobook up . . .  Love this handle: “Books, Wine, Repeat.”   I know, I know, I need to listen. Someday, someday:   Wow, so cool. Thanks: I did actually kind of halfway think of a new chapter that could-have-been the other day (well, somebody else thought of it, sort of, but I jumped on  . . . → → →

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This is Horror Awards for 2016: Open

And ready for anybody’s votes. Maybe the strongest line-up of finalists I’ve yet seen. Honored for Mongrels to be included. Click here to go there, and vote with your many-many email aliases.

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This is Why I’ve Spent So Much of My Life Looking in Basements

Just unutterably cool, this. I’m not even sure I have all the words. Here’s one pic: Here‘s the whole page. I think I might be this Thomas Merrilyn, slightly reincarnated.

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One Last Mongrels Write-Up

That I’d have missed without being passed the link on Twitter—thanks. This one’s over on Amazon UK, and . . . so cool, right up there with that Will Byrnes write-up on Goodreads. I’ll link it then screencap it in as well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R30YK... Also: so much thank you to everyone who thought to say something about Mongrels. Means everything. Happy almost-2017.

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Mongrels trade (UK)

Hey, look what’s sneaking onto the book tables in Australia here at the end of 2016: [ thanks to Emma Osborne for the snap ]

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