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Reading Stephen Graham Jones is like being on a manhunt for a double amputee. Even when I get him, I don't get all of him. Nick Bruiseman is a has-been PI who lives in a storage locker in Stanton, Texas. A small town, 3,000 people, where everyone knows everyone. So when Bruiseman gets hired, things turn incestuous quickly. The book will be released in March 2014. If you are a fan of detective novels and oral storytelling, then I definitely recommend it. But know, you're going to have to work for your reward. I've read a lot of Stephen Graham Jones (show stack), and I've thoroughly enjoyed just about all of it. Jones is an evasive storyteller, very difficult to pin down and with plots that are often difficult to follow. And I think with Not For Nothing, his 18th book, I've finally figured out why. First, his very conversational…

Flushboy by Stephen Graham Jones is my kind of book. Family dysfunction with a power element of the grotesque, in this case, the father's entrepreneurial drive toward starting a drive-thru urinal franchise. Buy Flushboy Mentioned: Stephen Graham Jones: http://www.demontheory.net/ Adam Johnson: http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/people/adam-johnson

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