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Tim Barrus: NYT Magazine
Sometimes writing speaks. Sometimes writing unspeaks. Sometimes writing comes from truth. Sometimes writing comes from a symbolism of the nuanced truth. I do not care what you believe. I literally do not know that there is an audience. It feels like a very deep cold loneliness. Rooney doesn’t channel Sally…
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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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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Sometimes (often) a shadow passes over you that you can recognize as raw despair. I often write about how we as people find it convenient to ignore the part pain causes a trauma that is so hard to recover from. It is a neurological reality that trauma changes a human…