Author: SGJ

Little Bit of Wackiness

for your drive home on a Friday afternoon (for when you’re not in motion…).

but, seriously, this is just a blip, a temporary thing: Native Lit actually needs variety / doesn’t need one person ‘speaking for all’ or ‘perched at the top’ or any of that ridiculousness. or? if it has to be one of us, I vote Louise Erdrich. …

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The flip/flop

Or . . . doesn’t Pynchon call it the ‘yo-yo’ in V., maybe? The Only Good Indians, first being one thing, then another—both of which I like. I mean, it’s kind of a werewolf, yes? Shine the right light on it, it becomes #1 in horror. Under a different light, it’s #1 in Native lit.

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PEN Center for Fiction

Talking with Victor LaValle: this was my whole plan with this book. If I could just somehow maneuver everything such that he and I could have an excellent conversation, then . . . what else could I ask for, right?

landing page: https://centerforfiction.org/videos/american-horror-stephen-graham-jones-on-the-only-good-indians-with-victor-lavalle/
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Apple Books Must Listen

For July! So cool. I would have used an exclamation point in that subject line/heading up there, but I feel like I’m becoming someone with just one volume setting. So, how about instead . . . bold? No, no: LARGE:

APPLE BOOKS

https://apple.co/3gX3XkT 
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The Graveyard Shift

About the best you can have: imagining you’re the attendant at the spooky place, and you get to bring books and some etcetera with you:

http://kendallreviews.com/graveyard-shift-to-celebrate-the-release-of-the-only-good-indians-stephen-graham-jones-is-this-weeks-warden/
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Shaney

Kind of a special-to-me write-up—”Shaney” (click through to read):

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3180792050
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Best Reviewed of the Week

Wow, cool, didn’t even know this was a thing. But they break it down nicely, and a certain elk book sneaks to the top:

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Fully Read

So honored by a read like this:

https://twitter.com/ZahneKim/status/1283514799402348544?s=20
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I Feel Seen

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