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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dear god, I hope you got my letter…

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For years, I would say, “this band rips off Joy Division,” whenever a Joy Division song came on just to watch people short circuit. It worked every time.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI bots love my work. They write me fan mail every week. It’s very flattering and delightfully vague. In particular they like my short story collection.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching a Hollywood Noir and you drop an alien on me? 👎

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I read more about some corporate gas station than I ever needed to.

Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . .

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Goodnight, Dolly. We loved you dearly.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Apparently, we need protein in every-fucking-thing.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pinocchio Unstrung is every bit as bad as I had expected, but also occasionally quite funny.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Look, I’ve watched the episodes of Ted Lasso. It’s not worse, people just hate women.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And the first faculty meeting of the year arrives like a thief in the night.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m watching The Dark right now and I’m enjoying it. It’s interesting to me how often I consume writing and music from the UK.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a truth. I have room in my heart for Blood Meridian and The Gilmore Girls. But if I could get a Gilmore Girls Blood Meridian book, I’d mighty happy.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but sometimes it’s just an empty room and not a liminal space.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For this Saturday my goal is finish editing an Astrophil Press book and clean the house. Both objectives make bring me unbelievable peace of mind.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Never has I ever looked at social media and thought, “That really improved my mood.”

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Really phoning in the headlines these days.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If I had the money, would I buy a hot rod from the 1920s and drive it around dressed as a Universal monster in October? Maybe.

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thrilled to have received blurbs from Brian Evenson, Simon Jacobs, and Chuck Tryon for my forthcoming book on KILL LIST! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

bloomsbury.com

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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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A headline where each word somehow gets worse.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Three days of 120+ heat index in South Dakota, yet some fool will find the one time it happened in 1936 (read Dust Bowl) to refute claims about corn sweat and climate change.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Everything Taylor Sheridan creates is hot garbage. His popularity is a symptom of everything wrong with this nation.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just watching the kitten destroy our blinds as she hunts a fly.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ah, we meet again O’Hare airport. What’s our delay this time? A birding? How unfortunate for the bird.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

O’Hare, you are the stuff of legend. Evil legend.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Evil Dead Burn was messy but very fun. More enjoyable than Rise but not as coherent as Evil Dead (2013). It’s been a good summer for horror.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RTJ4 is such a fantastic LP. I keep coming back to it and it feels fresh every time.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Two questions here…someone accused him? And did he use them like flint or like fuel?

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Omaha has more steak houses than people.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Americans have a way of making the World Cup look Nascar.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I am editing a forthcoming book and stopped for a minute to think about how fortunate I am to work with talented authors.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

As a boy, I dreamed of a world where people share the current temperature at their location.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Somewhere in this world there is a person who looks forward to all of these awful low budget shark horror movies.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Here’s one without a typo! My next novel will be released with Stalking Horse Press.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Packaged the latest South Dakota Review double issue. It mails on Wednesday. Starting with volume 61, I will be co-editing (co-collaborating) with my delightful new colleague, Éireann Lorsung. I am the editor for issue 61.1 and it’s filled with excellent writers.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Gen X is dying younger than the few previous generations, but hey, boomers solved the age old problem of people trying to cook eggs on diamonds.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My father said we live long enough to watch our friends die. Maybe it’s the people I came up with, but I’m too young to see so many die already.

duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All the dead phone wires haunting your walls. A biopic.

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The term “high concept” is not only counter to what it sounds like it should mean, but is also cheap stuff.

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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Coming on Dec. 10, 2026: my contribution to the Timecodes series, about the film Kill List. And now, it has a cover! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

cover art for the book Kill List by Tobias Carroll

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duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Maybe if you fuckers didn’t drink so much water Amazon could recommend better cheap shit made by children for Prime week.