Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxTodd G @toddaago.bsky.social · 22/08/2026thewalrus.ca/the-great-an...thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses | The WalrusHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form 011
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxSeabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026From @thewalrus.ca: The story of the self-proclaimed strongest man in the world, a wild, eccentric, and ultimately tragic character who made his home in Montreal. thewalrus.ca/the-great-an...thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses | The WalrusHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form 034
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThe Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 03/08/2026The Great Antonio was mourned by more than 3,000 people, but “the most repeated narrative of Antonio Barichievich’s life” leaves much unsaid. Here, Daniel Allen Cox pieces together forgotten archives to uncover the man behind the myth: thewalrus.ca/the-great-antonio 084
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThat guy @stuartbayens.bsky.social · 02/08/2026How one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form.thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses | The WalrusHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form 012
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxMaya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses thewalrus.ca/the-great-an...thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses | The WalrusHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form 011
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThe Walrus | Canada's Conversation [Unofficial] @thewalrus.ca.web.brid.gy · 30/07/2026thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull BusesHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form The post The Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses first appeared on The Walrus. 011
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxTaylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 31/07/2026Article I wish I had written on one of #Montreal's great weirdos, the Great Antonio thewalrus.ca/the-great-an...thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses | The WalrusHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form 152
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxJSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"He kept office hours at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the street from his apartment in a building on rue Beaubien. With powdered sugar on their fingers, the staff collected his mail and took phone messages for him. Antonio would return calls from a nearby payphone" 011
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThe Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 30/07/2026Antonio Barichievich, a.k.a. the Great Antonio, made a name for himself by pulling buses, wrestling bears, and telling impossible stories. Here, writer Daniel Allen Cox revisits the life—and lore—of a Montreal legend: thewalrus.ca/the-great-antonio 0113
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxDamn Interesting @damninteresting.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses thewalrus.ca/the-great-an...thewalrus.caThe Mystery of the Great Antonio, the Montreal Giant Who Could Pull Buses | The WalrusHow one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form 042
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThe Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 31/07/2026“I admire people who don’t need or seek society’s approval,” says photographer Sylvain Laquerre. “I knew I was dealing with history when I was by [Antonio’s] side, even if I didn’t know the significance our friendship would have after he was gone.” thewalrus.ca/the-great-antonio 083
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxPost Mo Thóoooooooin (DAVE!) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Again - growing up, "they" was the right pronoun to use for unspecified gender. I never had an issue using it until I moved over here and suddenly I was told to use the ugly as fuck "he/she" frankenword. I refused, but it wasn't trying to get paid either. 151
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxMiguel Antonio @messengerbagboy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it.thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 032
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxDave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social · 27/11/2025New standup album about growing up in a cult called JEHOVAH'S THICCNESS is out wherever you stream, or find it here: linktr.ee/daveweasellinktr.eedaveweasel | Instagram | LinktreeView daveweasel’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music here. Your next favorite track is just a click away! 521320
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/04/2026www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 042
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxG.B. Gordon 🍁 @gbgordon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Until thou relinquisheth the singular YOU, take thine arguments against the singular THEY and stfu! 043
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxJaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 011
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxShane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 02/04/2026"We all worship at the altar of words. I want language to serve the people I love, not the other way around." www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 062
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxCreative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 011
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxW. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 032
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxXochitl Gonzalez @xo-go.bsky.social · 01/04/2026"This is how queerness and gender nonconformity wind up being controlled in elite literary circles. If you can’t use someone’s pronoun, they can’t be written about." www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 032
Reposted by Daniel Allen Coximogen sayers @imogensayers.ca · 01/04/2026Even in LGBTQIA+ / queer publications I have been told using "they" pronouns, or switching pronouns for someone who uses multiple is "confusing" and we should stick to what people are familiar with. Censorship of trans+ identities has got to stop! 0238
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxMatthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This beautifully written essay infuriated me on the author's behalf. Editors choosing to die on the hill of grammatically erasing entire people. The inhumane humanities. 085
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxDr. Liz Powell (they/them) @drlizpowell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026As a non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, I honestly think it's getting worse right now. Even at my job, where all my colleagues are therapists who you would expect to be good with pronouns, I get misgendered a lot. And a number of folks don't seem to care about fixing it. 161
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 01/04/2026This is how queerness and gender nonconformity wind up being controlled in elite literary circles. If you can’t use someone’s pronoun, they can’t be written about. bit.ly/3PFaZl7bit.lyMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 1295
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 01/04/2026For years, @danielallencox.bsky.social used the pronoun "they" in his writing. For years, editors at multiple publications tried to make him remove it. bit.ly/3PFaZl7bit.lyMy Years-Long Fight to Say “They”Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it. 0227
Reposted by Daniel Allen Coxrichard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 03/04/2024I'm so floored by this gorgeous and generous review of my book in The Brooklyn Rail by @danielallencox.bsky.social: "[I]t is impossible to prepare for the way that Larson describes, in this vivid and cinematic memoir debut, the summer that defined his life." 🏳️🌈brooklynrail.orgRichard Scott Larson’s The Long HallwayWhen Richard Scott Larson was twelve going on thirteen, he started having a recurring nightmare of travelling a hallway full of dangerous, distorted characters toward a door slightly ajar, with someon... 096
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Didn't see this coming. I Felt the End Before It Came is a PW Best Book of the Year. 😭 "There’s a live-wire intensity running through Cox's prose that makes this easy to read and difficult to forget." Happy to be here with so many writers I admire. Thank you, Publishers Weekly! 091
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxJamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2023My latest book review is up at Plenitude Magazine of Daniel Allen Cox's I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness. Particularly proud of the blood, sweat, tears-and life research-that went into this one. plenitudemagazine.ca/hope-and-hid... 041
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 23/09/2023A mini documentary about I Felt the End Before It Came is now premiering at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. 🥳 There's some behind the scenes of the five wild years it took to write the book, and of course, some Montreal weirdness: thinairfestival.ca/user/1159/ 171
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Can't wait to take this book on the road again! 050
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 26/08/2023Marquette, Michigan's daily newspaper runs reviews of new arrivals at the local public library, and this one is sending me 😳 My book is really getting out there. 051
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 04/08/2023For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about stuttering, almost saying no to narrating my audiobook, and getting rid of ideas of perfection that have nothing to do with us. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/…theglobeandmail.comAuthor Daniel Allen Cox discards perfection in narrating his audiobookNarrating the memoir I Felt The End Before It Came taught Cox more about speech and voice than the writer had learned in years 093
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 26/07/2023Mark and I recently realized that the first concert we went to together was Sinéad O'Connor's free outdoor show in Montreal in the summer of 1997— eight years before we met. Of course. Here's Mark in Dublin in 2019. RIP, Sinéad. Today we remember and feel your power. <3 <3 <3 040
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxGreg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 18/07/2023come conjure lols with me in this two-day workshop for @shipmanagency.bsky.social august 8 & 15! 🤡🤡🤡 sign up here: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/wr… 022
Reposted by Daniel Allen CoxAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 18/07/2023Thank you. There’s a fantasy of AI we get from science fiction that is not this AI but people are primed to think it is, and companies are exploiting that misimpression. 110030
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 18/07/2023Some news: we're making a mini-documentary about my book, to premiere at a literary festival this fall. 😭 We broke through a fence to get this outtake, which is fitting —I can't separate my life from le Stade. 040
Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox.bsky.social · 12/07/2023What a thing to wake up to, in Montreal Review of Books: "A captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold about indoctrination, departures, comings-out, and the practice of memoir-writing itself." 😭 😭 170