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Finished up The Reformatory by Tananarive Due and started reading The October Country by Ray Bradbury.
So, the conversations with P. Djèlí Clark was
; breh made me rock with him even more, fr.He broke down his whole background as a historian....he teaches Black history and uses Birth of a Nation as one of the first films in class (if you read Ring Shout, you know why that’s a thing). You can tell breh not on no funny time; he knows what’s accurate and what’s creative license for the sake of art.
He even addressed the whole ‘female Harlem Hellfighter’ thing straight up. Pretty much said, ‘you’re reading a book about Ku Klux demons and mystical night doctors, etc.,’
. Basically told mfs not to get hung up on realism when the whole book is about mythmaking and reclaiming our stories thru fantasy. He also said he got some heat on the way for the brehs who felt like he didn’t represent them enough in this one
He also said he zoned out to “Drogas Wave” while writing Ring Shout.
It was funny watching him break down the lore and history behind certain scenes to a room that was like half crehs
. Grabbed the new paperback just to have it, plus another one of his joints, and got ‘em both autographed 
Thoughts on The Reformatory?
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Breh probably a coli lurker
So, the conversations with P. Djèlí Clark was
He broke down his whole background as a historian....he teaches Black history and uses Birth of a Nation as one of the first films in class (if you read Ring Shout, you know why that’s a thing). You can tell breh not on no funny time; he knows what’s accurate and what’s creative license for the sake of art.
He even addressed the whole ‘female Harlem Hellfighter’ thing straight up. Pretty much said, ‘you’re reading a book about Ku Klux demons and mystical night doctors, etc.,’
He also said he got some heat on the way for the brehs who felt like he didn’t represent them enough in this one
He also said he zoned out to “Drogas Wave” while writing Ring Shout.
It was funny watching him break down the lore and history behind certain scenes to a room that was like half crehs
But yeah that sounded like a dope talk
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I posted it on the other site but I thought it was fire. I should've read Tananarive Due earlier. I have The Between and The Good House so I will be jumping into her backlog soon
Breh probably a coli lurker
But yeah that sounded like a dope talk
Stg, everytime I was thinking of a question that I was going to ask him during the Q&A, the moderator either asked some variation of it or he ended up addressing it as if he could either read my mind---or this thread at least
Yup, I bought her up during the talk with Clark and he said that's somebody who he looks up to. I have 'Between' on my TBR and wanna get to it before the year is over if I can help it.
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Stg, everytime I was thinking of a question that I was going to ask him during the Q&A, the moderator either asked some variation of it or he ended up addressing it as if he could either read my mind---or this thread at least
Yup, I bought her up during the talk with Clark and he said that's somebody who he looks up to. I have 'Between' on my TBR and wanna get to it before the year is over if I can help it.
I wouldn't be surprised. Tananarive reminds me a bit of Stephen King in her prose style.
Tananarive reminds me a bit of Stephen King in her prose style.
How do you mean?
That didn't initially jump right out at me, I don't think. I mean, they definitely have that same DNA as taking their time to construct an atmosphere exactly the way that they want it---and just building that existential dread underneath the umbrella of cosmic or ghostly horror. But as far as actual writing, I don't feel she's as "campfire conversational" as the big dawg tho.
Though I guess you could say they both have 'accessible' prose if you will where you want get taken for a loop or anything.
And they both have never met a single detail that they wanted to leave out, that's for sure
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Not as 1:1 like Joe where he has a lot of his dad's Kingisms but the DNA like you mentioned is there with the world building, characters, and making the work feel alive and lived in. But I did notice one surefire Kingism in The Reformatory and that was a character peeing on themselves lolHow do you mean?
That didn't initially jump right out at me, I don't think. I mean, they definitely have that same DNA as taking their time to construct an atmosphere exactly the way that they want it---and just building that existential dread underneath the umbrella of cosmic or ghostly horror. But as far as actual writing, I don't feel she's as "campfire conversational" as the big dawg tho.
Though I guess you could say they both have 'accessible' prose if you will where you want get taken for a loop or anything.
And they both have never met a single detail that they wanted to leave out, that's for sure
I guess it's Steinbeck-like. I know it's sacrilegious to compare Stephen King to any literary giant but when I was reading John Steinbeck I saw the influence storytelling and prose.
