So, in one way I wanted to push back against it to make it plural, but another thing I wanted to do was I wanted to interrogate what it means to be a good Indian in 2020. Horror lays eggs in your head that hatch at unexpected times. It was a title of a part, and of course it comes from that slogan in the 19th century, which if horses had bumper stickers, the bumper stickers they'd all have worn in 1870 would have been, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," which of course I have issues with and want to push back against. Quite often, for a lot of my novels, my editors and my agents have helped me with the titles because I get too close to it and I can't see, so they tell me. My editor had the idea of moving it to the book cover, to be the title of the novel. SGJ: There's three parts in this novel, and this was a title for one of the parts. It grabbed my attention when I first saw it. NR: The first question I want to get into is the title. Stephen Graham Jones: Thank you for having me. Nicole Ransome: Hi, I'm Audible Editor Nicole and I have the pleasure of talking with Stephen Graham Jones, who has won numerous awards, including the Bram Stoker Award, has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, and is author of The Only Good Indians, one of the most talked about horror novels out this year. Note: Text has been edited and may not match audio exactly.
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