Fall for the Book Presents: Stephen Graham Jones
Featured Book
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
In *The Buffalo Hunter Hunter*, horror icon Stephen Graham Jones unspools an American Indian revenge story told through transcribed interviews of a Blackfeet named Good Stab. His tale unveils a Blackfeet massacre and the haunting, immortal search for justice. Jones is the author of over thirty novels, novellas, comics, and more; his forthcoming novel Off the Reservation returns to the Blackfeet reservation exploring another dark corner of this nation’s history involving the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Jones is the recipient of numerous honors, including four Bram Stoker awards and three Shirley Jackson awards, and has been named a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Dani Trujillo will moderate this conversation. Sponsored by George Mason Friends.
Free tickets are required for this event. Reserve yours starting on September 10 at 7:30 p.m. Max two per person.
Copies of Jones' books will be available for purchase at the event and a book signing will follow. Copies of Off the Reservation will be for sale ahead of its pub date (10/13/26) this evening only.
Featured Authors
Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Dani Trujillo
Dani is a Xicana writer sin vergüenza. The desert calls her home and inspires much of her work. Her writing was featured in Never Whistle at Night, where snakes come alive in the dark. Dani lives in the mojave with her husband, two conspiring black cats, an elder chihuahua named after jeans, and the plethora of ghosts roaming the west. Dani writes Adult Romance under the name Dani Trujillo & Horror under D.H. Trujillo.
About the Venue
Harris Theatre, George Mason University
Presented by Bards Alley
Closest paid visitor parking available at the Mason Pond Parking Deck.
4471 Aquia Creek Lane
Fairfax, VA 22030
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