Jeff VanderMeer

Powell's City of Books, Sunday, Mar 8, 7pm, two author photos and the cover of Now I Surrender. Extended description below: Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender (Riverhead) radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past. Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. It weaves past and present, myth and history into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty — and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory. Enrigue will be joined in conversation by Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach series.

Wow. Now I Surrender is amazing. Please come out to Powell's Burnside on Sunday night, when I'll be in conversation with Enrique, talking about his new novel. www.powells.com/events/-lvar...

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker HC

Filipino horror/weird books: -Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Kenneth Yu -Cautionary Tales from a Filipino Childhood by Bambi Eloriaga-Amago & Roland Amago -Tales (Supernatural and Otherwise) from the Barrios by Tomas P. Boquiren -In the Blood and Other Stories by Joseph Anthony Montecillo -Nightfall by Eliza Victoria

Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer, SubPress edition

It’s been a great book day:
-Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
-A lot of Filipino horror books
-Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social ; @subpress.bsky.social edition ❤️

#booksky

moment of calm: an oregon coastal elk just being an elk, no filler

more calm in the form of sea potatoes! harbor seals with not a care in the world, in a protected cove fulla fish and kelp.

please accept this recycled elk head as i work on my novel

A bunny sips coffee in his rundown kitchenette. Unbeknownst to him, black bunny mold is growing in the corner at a rapid pace

Daily bunny no.3266 is growing every day

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

upclose of gorgeous elk face

the face so regal and yet cute

moment of calm: an oregon coastal elk just being an elk, no filler

upclose of gorgeous elk face

the face so regal and yet cute

ABSOLUTION by Jeff VanderMeer in Stock and Shipping We're pleased to announce that Absolution, surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction ser...

In stock and shipping! The signed, limited edition of @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's ABSOLUTION: subterraneanpress.com/newsabsoluti...

harbor seal, head only above water, with mouth wide open, in the water

sea potato rages against the injustice of dusk robbing sea potato of eating moar fish

more calm in the form of sea potatoes! harbor seals with not a care in the world, in a protected cove fulla fish and kelp.

oh yeah, sarah gave us the elk coordinates!

flicker with mottled feathers and slight red to head.

a young flicker, just contemplating the world from a picnic bench on the oregon coast. no cares in the world.

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

three elk grazing in marsh

elk with what looks like a lovely ermine coat over it.

close up of epic beautiful elkfface

elk elk elk standing

We saw the elk! Elk elk elk elk elk. w/ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social

A book: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

A color illustration of a man running thru fire with a dead rabbit and many bones and skeletons underfoot.

A vivid color illustration of a big alligator.

An illustration of an uncanny green glow over ocean waves over skulls and bones.

The @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press edition of Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social has arrived, and it is beautiful!!

your moment of calm

"I definitely left the oven on, have to go home to check."

I know all the terrible things that have been happening and are still happening. I'm going to keep posting my videos etc in the hopes this is a place to come for a few moments of quiet and calm for everyone.

New Yellowstone TV series spinoffs: "The Ground Squirrel From Episode 7," "Cardboard Box Lying By Side of Road," and "Cowboy Hat With Hole in It Floats in Wind"

a black and white ambiguous photo of a bush lit up by lights: a hand extends out writing something unknown, a vague bearded face and whirling objects circle around it

kind of reminded me of something ...

tether w long twine?

i thought everyone detached from their brain at dusk and let it wander where it will like mist, until first light....

i was shy about revealing this is the scan of my brain

Sea Lion Cave, on the headlands a few miles north of Florence, Oregon. Two faults, one left center, another coming in from the right, interact with an ash bed (horizontal light band, middle) in Oligocene Yachats basalt to erode and create this enormous sea cave. ⚒️

Photo credit Jeff VanderMeer. A black crow sits atop a wood post, ocean in background.

Same. Having a couple people a week ask me if I sent them this kind of email. I did not.

more calm for you...

crow on post

beige slug

yellow lily

waves on black rock

perambulations