Gabino Iglesias

5 days ago | gabinoiglesias.substack.com | Gabino Iglesias

Listen, I promise this is about fitness, but I have to tell you a sad story first. Consider it context or whatever. My reason for writing this thing. Back in November of 2021, my good friend Petra Mayer passed away from a pulmonary embolism. Petra was my editor at NPR. She was the first editor to take a pitch from me there. She showed me how to really use the em dash. She asked for more of my voice. She was instrumental in my reviewing career.

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Gabino Iglesias

There is a particular type of novel that is simultaneously about everything and nothing. You’ve read at least a couple of them. They’re novels that meander, that revel in minutiae, that shine a very big, very intense spotlight on common things, on small details, on relatively meaningless conversations. Writing a novel like this is relatively easy. Writing a novel like this that works is a different story.

2 weeks ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Gabino Iglesias

Few things have the staying power of horror tropes. Ghosts. Demonic possession. Zombies. Haunted houses. Vampires. Werewolves. Witches. Masked slashers of the human and supernatural varieties. Aliens. Tentacled monsters. Strange sounds in the middle of the night. Nonfiction narratives about the current state of the world. The list goes on and on, and horror fiction lovers keep going back to those tropes, to that literary soul food, because it satisfies a special kind of hunger.

4 weeks ago | gabinoiglesias.substack.com | Gabino Iglesias

Hey, everyone! Hope y’all are doing okay despite the constant tire fire. Been a while, but here we are again. We’re also very close to 2000 subscribers. When we get there, I’ll bring back Show Me Your Shelves (writers talking books and showing us their shelves) and maybe Skin Stories (writers talking about and showing us their tattoos). So yeah, if you end up reading this, please subscribe! Already subscribed? Tell a friend or three.

1 month ago | crimereads.com | Gabino Iglesias

I began writing about books for the New York Times in late 2023 and officially began my tenure as the horror fiction columnist for the New York Times Book Review in January on 2024. I love that gig with all my heart, but it often makes me miss something else I love with all my heart: crime fiction. Sure, I’m still reading crime (and noir, thrillers, mystery suspense, true crime, etc), but I’m not writing about what I read, and writing about what I read is what I’ve always done. Solution?