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Posted on June 25, 2018 by SGJ

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Book Review: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

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is the NYT bestselling author of 25 or 30 or so books, +350 stories, some comic books, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots

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