Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 275
June 13, 2011
faq
Jones: PEN OR PENCIL? SGJ: I can't really handle how loud pencils are. Jones: HOW FAST CAN YOU TYPE? SGJ: Can't quite hit the 220wpm Philip K Dick was supposed to. But I plan on living longer, too. Jones: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE X-FILES EPISODE? SGJ: "Jose Chung's Little Green Men" Jones: WHY WRITE? SGJ: Because [...]
It Came from Del Rio
it came from the back of the book There are borders and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there's the borders he's made. Between himself and his estranged daughter, the border patrol agent. Between himself and [...]
The Ones that Got Away
from the back of the book : These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back [...]
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
from the back of the book : If there's a line between the real and the digital, between meat and the game, between past and present, then hold this book close to your mouth and whisper it into the pages. Please. Maybe the kid in there'll hear you. His name is Nolan Dugatti. He's lost, [...]
Ledfeather
from the fc2 website : After burning up all the blacktop New Mexico had to offer with The Fast Red Road and rewriting the Great Plains into a place both more and less Indian than they already were with The Bird is Gone , Stephen Graham Jones has now brought the story up to Montana. [...]
Demon Theory
Sample | Afterword | Quiz | Trailer | Intervw | Avatars | Banner | Discuss | Discuss More Description from the MacAdam/Cage website: About the Book On Halloween night, following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years [...]
The Fast Red Road
The Fast Red Road—A Plainsong is a gleeful, two-fisted plundering of the myth and pop- culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a novel fueled on pot fumes and blues, a surreal pseudo-Western, in which imitation is the sincerest form of subversion. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as changeable as their outfits; horses are traded [...]
Bleed Into Me
a Book of Stories in this order: Halloween Venison Captivity Narrative 109 To Run Without Falling Episode 43: Incest Nobody Knows This Bile Filius Nervosus Last Success Conquistadors These are the Names I Know The Fear of Jumping Bleed Into Me Carbon Every Night Was Halloween Discovering America Reviews: University of Nebraska Press Popmatters San [...]
The Bird is Gone
a monograph manifesto Imagine a world where the American government signed a conservation act to "restore all indigenous flora and fauna to the Great Plains," which means suddenly the Great Plains are Indian again. Now fast-forward fourteen years to a bowling alley deep in the Indian Territories. People that bowling alley with characters named LP [...]
All the Beautiful Sinners
Nazareth, Texas Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town's sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect—an American Indian—holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive's trail, the more he realizes that his own involvement in the [...]
