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Tobias Carroll

@tobiascarroll.bsky.social

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Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Writes frequently about many things. There's a podcast called Framed & Bound and a comics review newsletter called Postcards From Komiksoj. NBCC Board. https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · Sep 3

Update: there's now a new page for my book on Kill List on @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

Kill List

A minute-by-minute analysis of Ben Wheatley's film, Kill List (2011).2011's Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, provides a…

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3h

....is this as the result of an angry witch cursing both of them, or...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 17h

I went a little bit long on Chris Kraus's excellent new true crime novel and what it has to do with the Red Scare girls. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 76

What I read this week The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus There are so many things I want to say about this book. But let's start with this: The Four Spent the Day Together is an excellen...

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 7h

Oh hey, Ethel Cain making with a The Reflecting Skin recommendation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19...

Ethel Cain’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 7h

Some nights you need to move your desk 90 degrees, and tonight is one of those nights.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 7h

Recently got mine as well, which suggests that the "2% Sardinia" I got from the previous update was a glitch.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 18h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 14h

Smashing the proverbial pre-order button.
dalek.bandcamp.com/album/haywar...

HAYWARDxDÄLEK, by HAYWARDxDÄLEK

9 track album

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 14h

The realization that Books Are Magic is a handful of blocks from where I have jury duty. (This is a good realization.)

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 15h

Dammit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

I want to be clear that I mean this as a compliment: I could imagine either Jeremy Enigk or Scott Stapp singing over this, to very different ends.

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking about posting something like "my copy of PATERSON was bitten by a werewolf and I think it's going to kill me in my sleep."

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

The latest issue had a lot of other shoes dropping, and I cannot wait to see where it goes from here.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

That moment of "oh shit, I have a flight credit I need to use between now and December 30."

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Futureheads' take on "Hounds of Love." www.youtube.com/watch?v=awjE...

The Futureheads - Hounds of Love (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by The Futureheads

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 2d

Love the soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fxT...

Santana DVX

YouTube video by The Lonely Island - Topic

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David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social · 2d

It's been tough going for small publishers for a while, but they continue to publish a lot of the most exciting new work, and are the main supporters of the short story as a form. Support indie publishing when you can!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

James Hornor Jacobs's new novel and The Lowdown (assuming my hotel's wifi cooperates).

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

I am no box office prognosticator, but it does seem odd that a third Tron movie would have (as far as I can tell) almost nothing to do with the second film, which at least....teed things up pretty well for a third installment. (Cillian Murphy! Just lurking on the periphery!)

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

VoidCon 3: where the author of the most fucked-up book I've read in the last five years introduces me to the absolutely sublime snack known as Beaver Nuggets.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 3d

Loved this profile of the women who run Hagfish Books, another amazing company devoted to reissuing forgotten and overlooked titles.

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

I also had a sore arm for a lot longer than I'd had in the past this time out. Odd.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

It was great to see you, too!

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Cannot say enough about how inspiring the @beyondthezero.bsky.social episode with M. John Harrison has been to listen to. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

M. John Harrison - THE COURSE OF THE HEART

https://serpentstail.com/work/the-course-of-the-heart/

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