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  1. Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel

    Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel A Novel In A Novel


  2. 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


  3. DIRT BIKETOWN

    The earth makes you feel the earth. You will know gravity and what a gravity well is. It’s about surviving the experience. You try to make it all look normal. It takes me about three hours to put on the full mask. Go out there and sparkle. Who says go


  4. They Would Die 4 A Dirt Bike

    So, I gave them dirt bikes. A lot of people – mommies – were going to hate my guts. The point of it was to distract them. Anger can limit so much of vision into a drunken blur. Dopamine runs wild as does adrenalin. Usually all around the lens that…


  5. Tim Barrus: Spoons

    People ask me why I am doing this one. This book of Getting Out of Dodge. Dirt Bike Town. People have been all over my ass about writing that looks at the deep sense of loss in Appalachia. I’m not doing poverty porn. That would be easy. Right now, I’m…


  6. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    Both readers and writers hate this, they will try and pull you into the rope-a-dope of rope-a-dopes. Writing is supposed to be Being Virginia Woolf’s Best Friend Forever. Woolf had to be bipolar. Mania is not your friend.  The New York Times kinda lives in this golden bubble they have…


  7. 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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