jacobclifton.com · Stories & Fiction
Some of this is fiction.
All of it is the same project.
What does it mean to pay close attention to stories? What do they cost, and what do they give back, and what does it mean that you can’t look away? Here is what that looks like as a novel. Here is what it looks like as a novella. Here is what it looks like when you take fourteen years of television recaps and remix them until they stop being about television entirely.
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Novels & fiction
The books.
In Progress
Oldie
Midapocalyptic literary sci-fantasy. Seven immortal beings called Dreamers die on a quiet morning and wake up as strangers to themselves on a shattered version of America’s west coast. A story about the weight of forever, the cost of being a hero, and the trauma we inherit from our past selves.
Outriding
A staid military librarian finds his true purpose — and a new family — on a chaotic, ancient archive beyond the stars.
The Urges
Nadine Blumenthal wants to put her psychic powers to use — and after a messy divorce, a mysterious new clinic offers her the perfect job. What she finds there could save her life, or end it.
The Compleatly Wasted Beauty
Tenth Anniversary Edition
A high-concept satire in disguise as urban fantasy. A funny, moving, anarchic meditation on fame, beauty, and the price of being human.
Everything All of the Time
Angels, superheroes, monsters. And the men who love them. Six subversive novellas about desire, masculinity, and the dangers and glories of both.
Television criticism
The WATCHING… series.
For fourteen years at Television Without Pity, I wrote about television in a way that was never really about television. The WATCHING series takes that archive and does something new with it. Not a reprint. A remix. Each volume finds the thing running underneath the show — the thing the recap was always actually about.
23+ volumes covering True Blood, Battlestar Galactica, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, Doctor Who, Bates Motel, and more. New volumes released on an ongoing basis.