Tobias Carroll
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social
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.
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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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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...
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
....I feel like Talk To Her probably falls into this category.
So because my friend Austin is having a bad day because of some holier than thou assholes who can't seem to understand film and art is subjective, I want to know what some of your favorite problematic movies are. I'm talking about movies that if you were asked on a first date what movies you love...
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
....I feel like Talk To Her probably falls into this category.
Had a very surreal dream that Brady Corbet surprise-dropped his followup to The Brutalist, which I ended up watching out of sequence but still found incredibly moving. Also as I did so, I was being seduced by a married woman. Like I said, weird dream.
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Had a very surreal dream that Brady Corbet surprise-dropped his followup to The Brutalist, which I ended up watching out of sequence but still found incredibly moving. Also as I did so, I was being seduced by a married woman. Like I said, weird dream.
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guys we gotta find the pope's letterboxd
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
guys we gotta find the pope's letterboxd
My mom made a reference recently to watching "the Garfield movie," and it took me a second to realize that she meant "Death by Lightning" and not, you know, Chris Pratt voicing an orange feline.
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My mom made a reference recently to watching "the Garfield movie," and it took me a second to realize that she meant "Death by Lightning" and not, you know, Chris Pratt voicing an orange feline.
Really dug this roundtable discussion of Die: Loaded at @comicsxf.com. comicsxf.com/2025/11/12/d...
Of roles and rolls - Image's DIE: Loaded takes us back to hell - COMICSXF
It’s 2025, and people are about to go missing again as the game from hell returns. DIE: Loaded #1 is by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Really dug this roundtable discussion of Die: Loaded at @comicsxf.com. comicsxf.com/2025/11/12/d...
Sad to hear this news. Had a blast reading there in the spring of 2017, and really liked what the space was all about.
Volumes Bookcafe will close in January www.instagram.com/p/DRDALTFEYn...
Volumes Bookcafe on Instagram: "A message from Kimberly and Rebecca. Not the best news, but we plan on having a kick-ass last holiday season with you all, and we hope you get a chance to come say good...
262 likes, 36 comments - volumesbooks on November 14, 2025: "A message from Kimberly and Rebecca. Not the best news, but we plan on having a kick-ass last holiday season with you all, and we hope you ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sad to hear this news. Had a blast reading there in the spring of 2017, and really liked what the space was all about.
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"Constraints are great and strangely freeing in the best ways." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/14/b...
Beyond the Trilogy: Robert Lopez and Molly Gaudry on Writing Interconnected Books that Defy Expectations of Traditional Series
Robert Lopez is the author, most recently, of The Best People (2025), the third installment of interconnected “People” books, which began with Good People (2016) and continued with A Better Class o…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Constraints are great and strangely freeing in the best ways." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/14/b...
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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Watched episode five of The Chair Company. Had a very brief moment when I thought, "Huh, that looks like Albert Finney; is he watching 'Scrooge'?" And then I learned that the answer to my question was a resounding "No."
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Watched episode five of The Chair Company. Had a very brief moment when I thought, "Huh, that looks like Albert Finney; is he watching 'Scrooge'?" And then I learned that the answer to my question was a resounding "No."
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I reviewed @johnhornor.bsky.social's new novel The Night That Finds Us All. (It's good!) reactormag.com/book-review-...
Here Be Dragons: John Hornor Jacobs’ The Night That Finds Us All - Reactor
A bracing work of maritime cosmic horror.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I reviewed @johnhornor.bsky.social's new novel The Night That Finds Us All. (It's good!) reactormag.com/book-review-...
ICYMI: I wrote about an unsettling Barry N. Malzberg novel from the 1970s about a troubled ex-president for Zona Motel. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...
REVIEW: By Night In America?
Barry N. Malzberg’s "The Last Transaction" is terrifying reading in 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
ICYMI: I wrote about an unsettling Barry N. Malzberg novel from the 1970s about a troubled ex-president for Zona Motel. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...
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Amazing to see No featured here - thanks so much @wwborders.bsky.social and @tobiascarroll.bsky.social!
Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Amazing to see No featured here - thanks so much @wwborders.bsky.social and @tobiascarroll.bsky.social!
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So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August.
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Sunday Stories: “You Say Roti; I Say Ruti”
You Say Roti; I Say Rutiby Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed for Abdul Latif Joarder Jessore, East Pakistan, 1971 The Pakistani soldiers joke among themselves, and Iftekar cannot trace the indefinite shapes of t…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August.
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
I understand why publishers put watermarks on galleys, both print and electronically. But I do think publishers engaging in this should take care that they do not render significant chunks of text utterly unreadable as a result.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I understand why publishers put watermarks on galleys, both print and electronically. But I do think publishers engaging in this should take care that they do not render significant chunks of text utterly unreadable as a result.
Cannot shake how unsettling the final scene of this is — or the concept of architecture as a recording device.
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Cannot shake how unsettling the final scene of this is — or the concept of architecture as a recording device.
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Very chilling sign of the times for @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
to get shut down on here.
to get shut down on here.
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Very chilling sign of the times for @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
to get shut down on here.
to get shut down on here.
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Robert Altman, on the filming of THE LONG GOODBYE:
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Robert Altman, on the filming of THE LONG GOODBYE:
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
“Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times.”
I bought a copy of The Sea and Cake's "The Fawn" not long after I moved to Brooklyn. (Probably at South & Fury; maybe at Other Music.) I've connected it to autumn in the city ever since; it's kind of perfect for that feeling. theseaandcake.bandcamp.com/album/the-fawn
The Fawn, by The Sea and Cake
10 track album
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November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I bought a copy of The Sea and Cake's "The Fawn" not long after I moved to Brooklyn. (Probably at South & Fury; maybe at Other Music.) I've connected it to autumn in the city ever since; it's kind of perfect for that feeling. theseaandcake.bandcamp.com/album/the-fawn
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The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is now open. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits whose primary mission is presenting, publishing, and/or otherwise directly supporting creative writers are invited to apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is now open. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits whose primary mission is presenting, publishing, and/or otherwise directly supporting creative writers are invited to apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/
I am laughing so hard my face hurts.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am laughing so hard my face hurts.
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it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
Did Barry N. Malzberg anticipate the current state of US politics in the 1970s? Maybe! zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...
REVIEW: By Night In America?
Barry N. Malzberg’s "The Last Transaction" is terrifying reading in 2025
zonamotel.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Did Barry N. Malzberg anticipate the current state of US politics in the 1970s? Maybe! zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...