Tim Barrus Blog

1. Don’t Open That Door

   I think there was this lizard thing (I’m not sure it was alive) under the bed.

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2. So How Does It Feel When

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3. The New York Times Blacklist

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4. Tim Barrus and Lars Eighner

   I totally underestimated Lars Eighner’s seriously disturbed hatred of me following me every day for literally a decade. He published my address. I had it shut down and deleted. I never saw his viability as a writer and I rejected his work he threw at Drummer and it was a…

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5. Slink Away

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6. Fusion Ignition

   Behind the Demon’s  Head We were hiding in the trunk of a car. From Authority. Which usually meant hominids would be – all out cock hard– no, harder, much harder. Cheap Stock and Trade.  Jack was the flashback of New Orleans. Busted for Grand Theft Auto. Auto. He told me…

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7. Book Publishing Has Always Been a Train Wreck

   For Pam Paul at the New York Times: Publishing lives and dies by the blacklist. The blacklist decides. Not the editor. Not the PR guys. Not the publisher. It simply shows it’s not about what you write. It’s about the writer. Why did you write this. How many children do…

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8. Chop Shop

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9. Timothée Patrick Barrus

   Publications/Books/Awards New York Times Most Notable, New York Times Magazine, Houghton Mifflin, Random House/Ballantine, New American Library, Dutton, Barcelona Publishing, South Korea Publishing, Columbia Journalism Review, Solares Hill, Desmodus Publications, Mach, Drummer, Advocate, Magazine Corporation of America, Esquire, Miami News, Reporter: Cibola Citizen, Taos: Crow Call Press, Boston Bay Windows,…

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10. They Would Die 4 A Dirt Bike

    So, I gave them dirt bikes. A lot of people – mommies – were going to hate my guts. The point of it was to distract them. Anger can limit so much of vision into a drunken blur. Dopamine runs wild as does adrenalin. Usually all around the lens that…

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