Tim Barrus Blog
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Blacklist
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The blacklist is such an old and tired idea. It’s kinda stupid, really.
Any publication that is so threatened, it blacklists the very kinds of writers it needs, is a media publication that is in big girl trouble. You are not a stable. And we not your horses.
I am…
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Hands Behind Your Head
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Hands Behind Your Head
tim barrus
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Free Speech
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There is no such thing as free speech. Or free anything. The entire dog and pony show is never free, there is a cost, usually duplicitous. To see the stars, you will pay the piper. – tim barrus
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DO NOT DO THIS NAKED
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http://tim-barrus.format.com/
DO NOT DO THIS NAKED
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Walk the Walk
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Morgan Entrekin, the publisher at Grove Atlantic, once sent me a letter laying out how a hero in a novel manuscript should appear page one. Okay, I get it. I had started out with a sweeping view of the Southwest. He’s right. I should have chopped that out.
And then,…
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Collin Lost Again
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Collin Lost Again – tim barrus
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Down Deeper
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It got a bit scary. – tim barrus
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Poetess
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Tim Barrus
The Poetess
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Dirt Bike Town
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Dirt Bike Town is the Great American Novel. The photograph represents a scene from this current book project. It begins in a cave. There are many species that live in caves. Many homo sapiens are claustrophobic. In Dirt Bike Town, the cave has kept the ruins of the archives safe…
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A Chill in Publishingland
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opinion/publishing-literary-antisemitism.html
As Published in the NewYork Times, May 27, 2024
A Chill Has Fallen Over Jews in Publishing
James Kirchick is right. Publishing finds itself between a rock and a hard place. Publishing books hasn’t been a place led by the same old, same old, fat white men for a…