Writing that treats culture, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves with the same scrutiny most people reserve for literature.

I write novels, short stories, screenplays, and essay-length books that take popular culture seriously enough to argue with it. Not recap it, not celebrate it uncritically, but 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)

  • "Self-protection is a marker of the wise, and only dead people can hold onto courage forever."

    —From JB Minton’s upcoming book of interconnected short fiction Wigger: Stories of the 1990s.

  • "'I could bury you right here, and they'd never find you.' And then he smiled like it was a joke."

    —From JB Minton’s upcoming book of interconnected short fiction Wigger: Stories of the 1990s.

  • "She said sensitive people are born suffering, and they never stop."

    —From JB Minton’s upcoming book of interconnected short fiction Wigger: Stories of the 1990s.

  • "Never feel sorry for the Prom Queen. She's better than you. Her life is diamond showers. Don't feel sorry until you're sitting in her funeral."

    —From JB Minton’s upcoming book of interconnected short fiction Wigger: Stories of the 1990s.

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Wigger: Stories of the 1990s is being written now: interconnected pieces set in 1990s Ohio, building toward a single night of violence that recontextualizes everything before and after.

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    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.

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