About this Event
2026 marks the One Book, One San Diego program’s 20th chapter — a milestone worth celebrating!
Please join KPBS and our community partners for a special in-person event with Stephen Graham Jones, author of our 2026 One Book, One San Diego adult selection, "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter."
Selected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year
A Barack Obama Summer Read
Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel
Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel
Locus Award Winner for Horror
Libby Award Winner for Best Horror
Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist
A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, The Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year
The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
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.
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Accessibility
The Grand Ritz Theater has been retrofitted to be fully ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible. All three floors are accessible via elevator, located on the corner of the building directly behind Manzanita Coffee. The Ritz stage is accessible via ramp and the theater is equipped with 6 wheelchair accessible seats. For accessibility needs or to speak with someone about reserving a wheelchair accessible seat, please email [email protected] in advance of the event.
Directions & Parking
Please visit, https://www.thegrandescondido.org/venueinfo, for detailed directions and parking information.
Health Protocol
Before arriving at this event please assess your health. If you observe any runny nose, cough, tickle/sore throat, fever, body aches or any other unusual symptoms, please stay home. We appreciate your cooperation.
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"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" may be purchased at the event from the Library Shop. Proceeds support the entire San Diego Public Library System. Or check out "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" for free through the Escondido Public Library, San Diego County Library, or San Diego Public Library.
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One Book, One San Diego is a partnership, led by KPBS, with the San Diego Public Library, the San Diego County Library, San Diego State University, One Book Sin Fronteras and more than 40 organizations. For more information about One Book, One San Diego, please visit: kpbs.org/onebook
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More about Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. 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.
For more information, please visit https://www.stephengrahamjones.com/ and follow SGJ on Instagram: @stephengrahamjones.
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Thank you to our sponsors!
One Book One San Diego is funded by the Linden Root Dickinson Foundation, the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, the Frieda Berlinski Foundation, the Payne Family Foundation, the LaFleur Family, Kaiser Permanente, the City of San Diego, and Lloyd Pest Control.
Agenda
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Author Talk with Q&A
Info: Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the program will begin promptly at 6:30pm.
🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Book Signing
Info: Book signing will be first come, first served as time allows.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Grand | Ritz Theater, 301 East Grand Avenue, Escondido, United States
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