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How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writerâs Block
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April 15, 2021
âI get superstitious,â says the author, whose latest novel is âHummingbird Salamanderâ: âI once had a book sent to me that was disrupting my ability to write a novel because of a superficial similarity between the two. I took that book and dug a hole and buried it deep in the backyard.â
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I chose the night stand for its stalwart qualities and it is currently holding up well under the eclectic weight of an advance copy of John Paul Brammerâs â¡Hola Papi!,â B. R. Yeagerâs âNegative Space,â Bernard Rudofskyâs âThe Prodigious Builders,â Eley Williamsâs âThe Liarâs Dictionary,â Rita Indianaâs âTentacle,â Stephen Graham Jonesâs âThe Only Good Indians,â Julienne Fordâs âParadigms and Fairy Tales,â Angelo Maria Ripellinoâs
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Stephen Graham Jones
Jones, finalist for The Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, appears April 20 on “Speculative Fiction: The Real and Unreal,” with Megan Giddings, Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar, moderated by Kelly Link.
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Back in 2007, Stephen Graham Jones went hunting and came home with a big cow elk. He made his prey a promise. “Whenever I take an animal on the field,” he says, “I tell them they’re gonna feed my family, that this wasn’t just for sport, that I’m not going to waste any of them.” But when he moved from West Texas to Colorado a few months later, Jones couldn’t take a freezer full of elk meat with him. Instead, he walked up and down his street giving it away and for the next several years he found himself wondering if any of his neighbors discarded that
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