The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham JonesThis collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. The Faster Redder Road features excerpts from Jones’s novels—including The Last Final Girl, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Not for Nothing, and The Gospel of Z—and short stories, some never before published in book form. Examining Jones’s contributions to American literature as well as noir, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s introduction puts Jones on the literary map. |
Contents
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State from Quarterly West | 61 |
Captivity Narrative 109 from Bleed into Me | 75 |
Exodus from 5_trope | 83 |
Not for Nothing excerpt | 89 |
The Decomposition of a Conversation from Vincent Brothers Review | 223 |
Rocket Man from Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth | 227 |
Neither Heads Nor Tails from the Bacon Review | 237 |
All the Beautiful Sinners excerpt | 239 |
Lunch from 32 Poems | 243 |
Rendezvous with Sula Prime from Trailer Park Quarterly | 245 |
Deer from New Texas | 269 |
Little Lambs from Iron Horse | 273 |
Father Son Holy Rabbit from The Ones That Got Away | 91 |
Carbon from Bleed into Me | 99 |
To Run Without Falling from Bleed into Me | 107 |
Discovering America from Bleed into Me | 113 |
The Gospel of Z excerpt | 117 |
The Parable of the Gun from Clackamas Literary Review | 123 |
Paleogenesis Circa 1970 from Black Warrior Review | 135 |
Interstate Love Affair from Three Miles Past | 143 |
Uncle from After the People Lights Have Gone Off | 183 |
Raphael from The Ones That Got Away | 195 |
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti excerpt | 219 |
It Came from Del Rio Part I of the Bunnyhead Chronicles excerpt | 283 |
Welcome to the Reptile House from Strange Aeons | 285 |
A Failing Sestina from Alaska Quarterly Review | 301 |
Screentime from Sundog | 311 |
A Work of Fiction excerpt | 319 |
Boys with Guitars from mixer | 327 |
The Last Final Girl excerpt | 355 |
How Billy Hanson Destroyed the Planet Earth and Everyone On It from Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth | 363 |
Credits | 369 |
Back Cover | 372 |
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