Writing that treats culture, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves with the same scrutiny most people reserve for literature.
I write novels and essay-length books that take popular culture seriously enough to argue with it — not recap it, not celebrate it uncritically, argue with it.
JB Minton
Podcast Co-Creator, The Red Room Podcast (2011-2022)
Podcast Co-Creator, In Our House Now: An Inquiry Into Twin Peaks The Return (2021-2022)
Author, Father, Why Are You So Angry: A children’s book for the growing man (2026)
Author, Enlightenment And Twin Peaks (2026)
Author, A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 2nd Edition (2025)
Author, Sermons On The Outlaw Josey Wales (2023)
Author, Ey Up! An American Engages With This Is England (2022)
Author, A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 1st Edition (2020)
The kind of writer
I don't write comfort reading or takedowns. What I write is closer to an argument: that the shows, books, and culture we treat as disposable are usually doing more work on us than we admit, and that looking at them clearly is its own kind of discipline.
If you want fiction and criticism that respects your attention enough to ask something of it, this is the shelf to pull from.
i’m generation x to the bottom of my heart and my heart has no bottom.
Buy It From Me While You Can
Here is some stuff I’ll sign and send to you. Limited quantities.
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Author JB Minton is back with 31 short essays on unique moral themes from the 1976 Clint Eastwood masterpiece The Outlaw Josey Wales