Michael Barron
@_michaelbarron
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writer / editor formerly @NewDirections @MelvilleHouse currently board member @andothertweets writing a novelized portrait of Washington D.C.
Washington D.C.
Joined January 2019
I'm available for feedback on manuscripts, stories, and pitches. My experiences as an editor at New Directions, Melville House, and the Rumpus means I've seen it all. Let me help you. Fees negotiable and on a sliding scale.
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Only in DC can you randomly come across an open air performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra while the city is under a military occupation.
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It's true, I did.
I love that - unsolicited - @_michaelbarron has brought out Céline specifically to cite Bill’s “Reader, fuck you!” afterword. The boys are back in town.
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Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
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Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
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Gone to Prizren this summer with @xlorentzen, @suzana_vu_go, Ryan Ruby, Josh Furst, and Ervina Halili.
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RIP to a legend. I've loved Black Sabbath since the eighth grade.
Ozzy Osbourne, who helped invent heavy metal as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at 76.
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A detailed list of all 146 women tried for witchcraft in Zagreb’s history.
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Grave of Natalia Ginzburg and fam in Verano Cemetery, Rome.
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Hiked to Curzio Malaparte’s mausoleum on the summit of Monte le Coste overlooking his Tuscan hometown, Prato. This was his wish and to honor it, workers installed a temporary track to haul up material.
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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be serving as a judge for the 2025 US/Can Republic of Consciousness Prize! What a privilege to read and celebrate and share with you the best fiction that small presses have to offer! Find out more about @USRofC at the link below:
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Party at my place in Florence for expat New Yorkers to come celebrate Mamdani’s win
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A TABLE FOR FORTUNE, William T. Vollmann’s long awaited novel on whatever we might call our national character - from Cold War to War on Terror - is available for preorder! 🔗 ⬇️ If not his masterpiece, then certainly yet another precious stone set in the crown of his oeuvre.
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PRETTY COOL -- world's first excerpt of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOL. III by Solvej Balle in THE DRIFT ISSUE 15!!!!!!! https://t.co/WXDn8PJJHj
@thedrift_mag @NewDirections
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I read two or three sentences by Claudio Magris recently and instantly loved him. This feels like writing for writing’s sake, it has a subject because one needs one, of course, but it could just as well have been about something else
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New Schattenblog: Post 13: Mousetraps-- Mérode Altarpiece, tunnel of looking, self-making, mousetraps, burning Waymos, tempting images and more, link in reply tweet for algo
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Walked to the Florentine suburb of Galluzzo to visit the tomb of Eugenio Montale, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He and his wife lie in a 1000-year-old church dedicated to Saint Felix of Nola, the patron saint of spiders.
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