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Stephen Graham Jones

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Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author thirty-five or so books. He really likes werewolves and slashers. Favorite novels change daily, but Valis and Love Medicine and Lonesome Dove and It and The Things They Carried are all usually up there somewhere. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado. It's a big change from the West Texas he grew up in.
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Dogland

Y’all remember back when every third dog was named “Curtis Lowe?” I guess I don’t either—think it was forty-five, fifty years ago. And it was probably every 700th dog. But still, it was a thing, and it must have been cool. And? Maybe this is how it started:

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“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“This is all you really need, isn’t it? Just one good friend. Somebody you can be stupid with. Somebody who’ll peel you up off the ground, prop you against the wall.”
Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

“Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.”
Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

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