SGJ – Page 157 – Stephen Graham Jones

Jeremy Robert Johnson & Skullcrack City

June 11, 2015June 11, 2015

Because I kind of insist on assigning amazing stuff for my grad workshops, I of course assigned Jeremy Robert Johnson’s Skullcrack City (my original write-up here). It was dug by…

Categories: craft / etc

Mongrels

May 20, 2015November 29, 2024

Set in the deep South, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly, and surprisingly funny novel that follows an unnamed narrator as he comes of age under the care of his…

Categories: books / werewolves

The Little Werewolf Novel that Could

May 11, 2015December 12, 2015

Until World War Z, I’d been hearing that same thing about the zombie. And I guess it was kind of true. A lot of fun had been had, no doubt—the bulk…

Categories: news / werewolves

Endless Janes: Ex Machina

April 28, 2015

Have we come a long way, baby? I don’t know. I’m not going to pretend to have a line on the first AI done in film or novel or story—and,…

Categories: movies/tv

The Shining in Emoji

April 27, 2015December 29, 2022

From forever ago, yes. But I’m just now stumbling onto it. And, is ’emoji’ the right word? Like, what are those little character-based happy faces people put in their texts?…

Categories: etc / movies/tv

The Slasher in the Machine

April 20, 2015September 3, 2017

The analogue to ‘found footage’ in fiction would be the shoebox novel: somebody drags a box out from under the bed, there’s all these clippings, let’s lay them out one…

Categories: movies/tv / slashers

Skullcrack City

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015

Read this—lived in this—two or so weeks ago, but haven’t had a spare minute at the keyboard until now, just because of what Bob Seger calls deadlines and commitments. But it’s…

Categories: bookish

From UNM: “This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. The Faster Redder Road features excerpts from Jones’s…

Categories: books

Bueno

March 22, 2015March 22, 2015

It’s what the new theme’s called. It’s made for showcasing cars—photographs, at least—has a cool built-in slider I can use if I set a featured image with each post. but,…

Categories: site

Ready Player One

January 14, 2015January 26, 2015

I wonder what it’s like to read this if you’re not, say, exactly forty-two. Being forty-two, however (just like Ernest Cline), this was perfect. It rewards all the obscure trivia…

Categories: bookish

My best-of 2014 list

January 4, 2015January 10, 2015

Four or five days late, but, you know, I was finishing a novel. So. Three of my best reads from 2014 weren’t actually 2014 books, as it turned out: John Scalzi’s Redshirts, Jeff…

Categories: news

SDF

November 26, 2014November 26, 2014

Those are the three letters I’ve been tagging onto the end of each writing session since forever. Everybody do this? I can’t not do it. Just a way a laying…

Categories: craft

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

November 11, 2014September 3, 2017

Is a serial- or spree-killer who wears a mask and kills ‘misbehaving’ teens a slasher? If not, then what of Ghostface and fifty other killers, right? But, the slashers we…

Categories: movies/tv / slashers

Oops

November 1, 2014

tried to add The Faster, Redder Road to the menus, and it somehow broke all the secondary menus. I deleted it, but the breakage persists. So, either I’ll reinstall this…

Categories: site

The Now Book

October 3, 2014July 18, 2016

Not a ‘new’ book . . . yet. Just a book I’m writing right now. May never even finish it, who knows. As for when I started—tab, tab, tab—it looks…

Categories: comic books / craft

Ello

September 26, 2014

I’m there now. Or, I’m here: https://ello.co/sgj I like the smiley face a lot more than the birdhouse, and I like the distinct non-blueness of the whole thing so far….

Categories: etc