Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with media
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Lydia Polgreen Is the Best
TAKE NOTES Here in Appalachia, they just kill the trans kids. After torturing them. I’ve seen gasoline poured on them. People looked down. At their feet. People walked away. No one would help this screaming, naked kid. I picked up a rug and wrapped him in it and got him…
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THE MEDIA WANTS RAZZLE DAZZLE POLITICS AS IF THEY WERE EVENTS
Take notes. About control. Dream Big Again is beginning to sound like Dream What We Tell You To Dream. Americans would never buy a used car from a used car salesman named Nixon Halloween who had used cars to unload. Fast. Faster. The Garden is another testosterone wrestling event. Ordinary.…
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Blacklist
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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Literary Critics
We sell writers. Often, down the river. One book critic for NYT who reviewed one of my books (it was a rave) attempted to pour gasoline – what else – on my personal life. His students physically followed me around for years. We might not be the characters we create.…
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I lived across the street from the bar. Poetry night was on Thursdays.
I was very cautious of becoming recognizable in public. A few people knew who I was. Not many. Not well. Not on purpose. I cruised around the world on a tall sailing ship. The HMS Fantome. The Prince of Wales. Royalty will get you everything. Adolfo came around and snarled.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
It is not at all hard to imagine a monarchy. In 1658, Cromwell did it. As both head of state and head of government of the new republican commonwealth. He was the new king who chopped off the head of the old king. There are absolutely no facts to support…