AWP EVENT: LEFT BANK BOOKS on MARCH 1.

ByJSB February 19, 2014

This is where a bunch of us will be reading at AWP.

New article up at LitReactor: Six Killer Death Scenes

ByJSB April 9, 2016April 9, 2016

in which I talk about Laird Barron, Don DeLillo, Shirley Jackson and others. Here is a taste but you can read more at LitReactor. Image courtesy of LitReactor. When my kids were little we had a family fun game called “Death Scenes.” We’d gather in the back yard or in the playing fields behind our…

Richard Blackie lives on The Nervous Breakdown.

ByJSB October 12, 2012February 11, 2013

…sometimes life falls at your feet so pre-stretched and warped that you don’t need to touch it. So broken and fragile that you fear too much handling will tear it apart. If you have the presence-of-mind to cup it in your hands, or the artist’s hardness of heart to make a note and file it…

Taking off

ByJSB February 21, 2014February 21, 2014

Have you seen this Milos Formon Movie, Taking off? This is a clip from it. I’m taking off too. For my first AWP, the launch of my first book, my first reading. See you there. And watch the whole movie. I worked for a while as a blurb writer for a cable station. I had…

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews Collision

ByJSB February 9, 2019February 9, 2019

Alvaro Zinos-Almaro reviews Collision, beautifully, at Intergalactic Medicine Show. More than honored by this. Though she wasn’t born in the South, her stories evoke for me the same drawling sense of pocket-universe skewedness as Howard Waldrop’s best, perhaps filtered through a more contemporary sensibility; a time-lapsed version of Stephen Graham Jones’s back-country, tooth-bearing fictions, with…

NB reviews Collision.

ByJSB January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

Thanks to Linda Hepworth at NB magazine for this 5-start review of Collision. Cool that Keith Rosson’s illustrations get a nod, too. Without writing a separate review of each of these tales it’s difficult to do full justice to the quality of this author’s writing, but what it is very easy to do is to…

Wonder what’s in the suitcase

ByJSB January 27, 2018

Been so long,I’ve forgotten. For all I know it could be empty. #irony #awkward Oh wait. Here are some pictures from World Fantasy Con in San Antonio, way back in October/November 2017. And if you want to see more, I wrote about it over at LitReactor.

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