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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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Tim Barrus New York Times
Take Notes. Leftists? The term is a lie that journalists use in their hypothesis of the definitional political boundaries. Those leftists. But. Who are these so-called leftists. I know this: You made it up. God help us. Who are these people. Who shakes the hand of a Marxist and says:…
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Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
Tim Barrus Novelist
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THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
NOT TOO MANY WRITERS WOULD PUBLISH A TITLE: THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL If editors don’t like the title, it steps on some toes, then they should take a pass on the book. Motherfuckers, don’t waste my time. I lived on dog food. Name me one editor who lives on dog…
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Walk the Walk
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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Autism
I just can’t belong to the autistic tribe. And they don’t want me, anyway. You can’t keep all the hurtful stuff at arm’s length and that is expressed in compelling ways, I was diagnosed with autism at age 6 by school psychologists. Why. Because I was reading. Especially Marx, physics,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Publishing is the last place you will find equality. The old white men always win. Your culture war is lame.
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I COULD NOT BELIEVE THE NEW YORK TIMES PRINTED A VERY COGENT PIECE BY PAMELA PAUL WHO HAS FIRED A SHOT ACROSS THE BOW, AND IT HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED That cannon ball is actually a defence of the status quo in publishing – traditional publishing – where six writers…
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Tim Barrus: 2LiveABarrenSubstanceInsideaNeedWhoseGriefOfTwentyShadowsIsNotGrief
I am a communist. I am a lurid communist. You cannot wring blood from a hermitage. You cannot sleep with infidels. Whose flesh unseen the ruined temples of a king.
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Tim Barrus: Gatekeepers are Overlords
I regret writing the word autism. A hand grenade. I regret writing period. Being attacked is draining. I burned my books. I hate them. 37 meds a day cost 7K a month. Where are the writers who live with mental illness, too. In Electric Lit, I do talk about hearing…
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Electromagnetic Radiation
Daw is with Random House. The one in mid-town which is not affiliated or is affiliated with any damn thing. It is and it isn’t. Demented. The Holy Grail. Is but a cup. The ace of spades is what most gamblers who come in here with their strut boots on…
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Dirt Bike Town
I am out and about on my dirt bike taking photographs of American suburbs. They are so utterly bizarre to me. It’s a different planet out there. I have never lived in one. My many enemies will scream blood that since I have never lived in a suburb, I do…