Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with new-york-times
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Trump Is Coming For Your children
Kamala Harris is ready to lead. The operant word is ready. Question: Will she take children away from their parents and incarcerate them in boot camps which you could call Boot Camps For Trump. Some kids are still there. What he did to those families changed me in fundamental ways.…
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They Want to Burn My Penis
I am in the hospital. I am supposedly having a cardio conversion. Half of my heart is dead. I only have half a heart. So they planned this procedure, and I show up. UNC Pardee. A woman walks up to me and says. Strip. Excuse me. If you refuse to…
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Viable Gender Care Puts American Hair Aflame
Tim Barrus This all started at the New York Times. Then, it moved to FB. God help me. The piece we are all talking about is that gender change with kids is a pornography. This would be somewhat personal but why am I thinking that children living at the marginalized…
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
Tim Barrus and the New York Times Republicans are human slime. I have never trusted David Brooks. His faith in the goodness of the American people is toxic. The American people are not conflicted. They’re compliant. “Go kill those people over there because they are not like us.” And so…
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I Write What I See
I would like to see both Trump and Biden fighting it out. With bare fists and teeth. It’s how Americans know something is real. Conflict. Engagement. Blood. Continued engagement. Reengagement. To. What. End. We know some of that would be personal. Some of that would be political. All of it…
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Impotence
The American people will shrug and tolerate nuclear testing, too. How many ways can you get fucked in the ass and laughed at. Any other species would find it humiliating. That is the point of rape. How long have we been here. How long ago did homo sapiens begin to…
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Healthcare Has Failed Us
We are living through a culture war because we do not know how to rule ourselves, and we do not even know who our many selves are. We take a trip. Sometimes literature comes to town. The Book of Stories is us. But it is not yet an us, Americans…
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Tim Barrus: Blood in the Water
Sex was once considered to be a political act. Birth control was up for grabs, and birth control is still up for grabs. I remember – those times – when old white men called the shots because they could. The Supreme Court went for guns. Do you think, they won’t…
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Name Change
You will not read this. NYT will do whatever it can to prevent you from reading this. Because it’s about voice. There is no voice when you use a blacklist to punish writers. How do I prove my point. Like this: Hit submit. Wait 24 hours. No publication. Sell it…
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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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Back Into the Earth
Tim Barrus, the New York Times
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BINOCULARS
all, all/ my books/// have been burned here and there, ripped to shreds, blacklisted, by people on my front porch armed with forks and spoons/ editors get off on sticking it up my ass, well how am i to keep you down/ play it the way feel it/ i get…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Great travelers. The great travelers on the happy planet do not include themselves as victims in all the looking back at where they have been. I’m autistic, and really cannot make sense out of how political parties came to be regarded as the tails that wag the dragon. I’m so…
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What Book Is It Like
I am now used to the questions (plural) about what book is the book I am writing now like. The question is, I guess, inevitable. I smile and nod. Gravity’s Rainbow. But anyone born after 1987 will not have read it. Or they’ve read it but they are all in…
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It Is All A Blur
The wild waters of this roar are made in the fortitude of salt. Just salt. Miles and miles of salt. Mountains of salt. And the bones that fell there. – Tim Barrus
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CPR
I would not be worth – all of this – high action traction where the arch of the story itself could explode from pure adrenaline. That tone from word one to the end, lightem up, up, up. Litem up, up, up. I am glad people can coordinate and go for…
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Appalachia Kicks
I live in Appalachia. Supposedly, this, too, is North Carolina. I live here because it’s cheap. Economics is the great leveler. I eat what I can grow. Why is that supposed to be a humiliation. This is the land of No One Makes Much Around Here Anyway. We are not…
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porch
He sang songs in this rocker. And he forgot his hat.
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What Are We Sure Of
The end of democracy. The end of class and caste. A chicken for every pot. If we could all just work together. For togetherness. The end of patriarchy. The end of the hierarchal pyramid that protects the American paradigm that does not work. All of the cultural institutions like education,…
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Writers Should Plan Their Escape Now
If I was a journalist who wrote this, I would look for a quiet place where I might hide from the Night of the Long Knives. The Night of the Brown Shirts. The Night of the Executions. The Night of the Long March. The Night of Old Suitcases. The Night…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Is Maureen Dowd Irish.
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Michigan Was Not a Life
I am autistic. I have wondered and wondered. I lived on the wrong side of the river. Rusted ugly town of rusted ugly people. There was no blue sky. The coal cars stunk like corpses and the sulphurized-yellow clouds that drifted through our homes and lives, and as it lifted…
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Tim Barrus: The Predator Among Us
That greater darkness creeps receptive fatigue and that is where the lost are living. Denial is a weary mistress. Mistress takes no prisoners. Denial is impetuous. Americans live in a dreamy sleep even as the night has ended, where is the light. There is no light. We are the comatose.…
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Tim Barrus: Jared Leto
I would not have minded if the book critic had taken issue with my work. But no. They always go after me as a human being. I am, of course, the monster, the criminal, the itinerant, the Boogeyman, Coyote. I will gladly take Coyote. The coyotes around my cabin eat…
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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…