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Tobias Carroll

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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 · 18h

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

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 21h

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

www.nytimes.com

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 1d

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:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 22h

It was great to see you, too!

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 22h

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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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

The "Hey, have every self-loathing thought at once! While you're trying to sleep!" goblins are out in full force tonight. Probably what I get for forgetting to pack my sleeping edibles.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

The point in that interview when Wilson uses a certain slur made me do the auditory version of a double-take. (Also, convenient of him to ignore a certain passage about judging not lest ye be judged, but hey, what do I know, I'm just a weirdo from Jersey.)

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

May have purchased some Halloween candy for the table at @voidcon.bsky.social tomorrow. I am not above bribery, nope.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

That thing where you think you forgot to pack a power bank so you buy an extra power bank and then you realize, whoops, the extra power bank was in the side pocket of the laptop case all along.

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 1d

First panel at @voidcon.bsky.social has boggled my mind w/r/t considering John Steinbeck as cosmic horror.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 3d

Have you heard the news? The honorary chair of our 2025 Gala is none other than WWB contributor Hamid Ismailov! Come spend time with him and all of our dazzling literary hosts on 10/29 at the Edison Ballroom in NYC, and snag your ticket at the link: wwborders.live/2025Gala

Honorary Chair
Hamid Ismailov
Author of
We Computers
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Words
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Annual
Gala

Hosted by
Vanessa Chan
Author of
The Storm We Made
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Literary
Hosts
For more information and
tickets:
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

feels increasingly like Dem leadership is bringing a gravity bong to a knife fight.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 3d

This is a terrific book and here's a great chance to pick it up without making Bezos richer.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 4d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

They Cloned Tyrone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3M...

They Cloned Tyrone | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Though its mention of a Iancu Dumitrescu CD has me eager to track it down, only to see that it seems to be absent from both Bandcamp and Forced Exposure right now?

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Loved this essay on CDs, memory, and mortality. www.hearingthings.co/cds-history-...

Requiem for a Beam

A journey across the lifespan of CDs, from the cafe to the landfill and back.

www.hearingthings.co

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 4d

"What if Alta, but for New Jersey?" is one of those ideas that periodically runs through my head more frequently than it should.

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 4d

I can.

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 4d

Cannot believe it's been three years since this work of genius debuted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Jr...

ray parker jr.'s new halloween song– "Haunted Mansion"

YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 4d

There's something very funny about that particular color scheme in tandem with packaging copy that uses the word "booties," though.

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Michael Tedder @mtedder.bsky.social · 4d

The ANTICS Variety Show takes place tonight at Pete's Candy Store at 10:30pm, featuring words and music from Elise Soutar, Tobias Carroll, Andy Waldron and Ira Gamerman. You can also buy ANTICS latest issue while you're there.

Oh, and it's free!

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 5d

"in the fight for the West" is one of those phrases that sets off many, many alarm bells.