prof, writer, cultural critic
horror | native/indigenous lit | southern gothic | posthumanism
spikes, leather, dark stompy beats
Billy Joe Stratton
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Sometimes instead of working on a writing project or assessing final essays, it's fun to just take a meme. I feel like there are a lot of mongooses (or is it mongeese?) among my friends here.
Awards & recognition are nice, but it's the stories and history that literature can only convey that are the true winners in the recognition given to @stephengrahamjones.com's masterpiece, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
Long live Good Stab, long live the memory of Weasel Plume, never forget the Marias!
While media talking heads keep pronouncing the "death of reading," it just doesn't track with what I see from my students. Over the last year they've read everything from Faulkner & McCullers to Jones, Bazterrica, & @stephenking.bsky.social's IT w/ great insight.
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Fortune is absolutely killing it with their inhuman vibes. Love* this story about mechanizing food service! Why not also innovate the dining experience by having customers lay on a conveyor so food can be pumped in! One robot server could easily handle 500 diners an hour!
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Reading deep into the night. Rest in Power Marjane...
As a person who spends a lot of time reading for my classes, I often feel like I'm playing catch-up on all the cool books being published-& I don't just mean those by @stephengrahamjones.com😀 Getting around to Beowulf is a reminder that it's never too late-stories tend to find us when they need to.
Took me a sec to come to grips with this list of the 100 all-time best novels, with Middlemarch as #1. Don't get me wrong, I read it as an undergrad & didn't hate it, but back then I was in awe of being able to go to college & talk lit with others. What's your #1?
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This year's Locus Award for horror goes to @stephengrahamjones.com's riveting historical vampire novel: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter! Thankful to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for giving me a chance to write on it & for giving space to celebrate Jones' amazing work!
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Oh, hell yes, so well deserved and congrats to all the other great writes/novels nominated! Long live Good Stab and long live the horror renaissance!
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Wrapping up my dystopian class-or is it just the daily news cycle at this point?-w/ @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social’s tour-de-force Tender Is the Flesh.
Nothing says "happy Summer" like a biting 👀 critique of consumer culture. Here, too, is my review on it:
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Billy J. Stratton examines Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.”
The Wonder founder is automating fast-casual food with machines that make salad and poke bowls, sauces, and eventually drinks but there are few roles for humans in these kitchens.
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With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of workers.
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced Ma...
Whoah, wow: thrilled, floored, and honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award last night! Thanks, all. Signed, a horror writer stumbling around Edinburgh, Scotland.
