Tim Barrus Blog
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How To Fight Back
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The government controls what happens to our bodies. Serfs don’t do policy. Wanna bet. I was abused recently at a hospital where they use force and humiliation to control you. Fight back. MAGA has rendered science political. The analogies to patient’s right are obvious. Nursing staff forcefully stripped me naked…
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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town
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Dirt Bike Town, a novel, by Tim Barrus
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If It’s Poetry At Least U Will Have a Defense
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I am allowed to write about intimacy a little bit in novels but it’s intimacy that really scares you. The American family itself is highly conflicted. But if I wrap poetry around the thing (I do not always get away with this NYT), it becomes more mysterious, it’s smoother than…
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Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
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Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
A Novel In A Novel
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I AM AN ALARMIST
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I live in an extremely remote place in Appalachia. We are just now coming to the end of a drought. We don’t need some expert who tells us that it’s getting hotter, Duh. Frankly, I think the experts are wrong about the timetable speed. It’s getting hotter faster. No snow…
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Tim Barrus: Naked Before Us
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The boys I was dealing with sat on folding chairs in a circle. “Okay, who is going to play Richard Hatch, and who’s going to be Amarosa.” The question was What Is Reality. What is reality on TV. Or. What does it really mean. The boys all had HIV. A…
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Tim Barrus: What Economics
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Take notes. As the middle class slides down the rabbit hole, the middle class will encounter exactly what they think they left. The lower middle class. We welcome you to our hovel. I cannot read articles like this without thinking: Where are the poor in this. In Appalachia, we know…
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AND WE’RE WALKING
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He’s going down. The crazy daisies will now be his status quo. He’s not going to put himself in another debate with someone who just ragged him into a pool of make-up and sweat. But can she win the election remains the last pseudo-journalistic place to hide. But can she…
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TIM BARRUS: THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Take notes. Americans will tell you they like diversity. They do not know what diversity even is. It took hundreds of millions of years for trees to invent themselves. During the Carnian Pluvial Event, it rained for two million years. Two million years of rain. We cannot even imagine it.…
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Tim Barrus: Out Into the Lake
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This is where I come to stay sane. I pour myself into my books. Writing stuff. I don’t even know what a writer is. Stories are complex. Walking helps to see into the cracks and shadows.