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Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll is a writer and essayist, and the managing editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He is the author of three books: Political Sign (Bloomsbury), part of the Object Lessons series; the story collection Transitory (Civil Coping Mechanisms) and the novel Reel (Rare Bird).


Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

Tobias Carroll on the Postmodernist Fancies of
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
October 30, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

When White Privilege Interrogates Itself in Literature
July 22, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right

Tobias Carroll on Springsteen, Orwell, Jarry and the Intersection
of Art and Politics
July 17, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

Tobias Carroll on Books by Lucie McKnight Hardy, Claire Colman,
Stephen Graham Jones, and Jennifer Givhan
January 6, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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How to Write with Optimism About Nature
(in a Time of Disaster)

Tobias Carroll on Books by Isabella Tree, Marc Hamer,
and Tim Robinson
December 11, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

Crane Wrote in a Perfect Blend of Idealism, Cynicism, and Wariness
November 1, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

Tobias Carroll on the Generative Power of Literary Adaptation
May 29, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

Because Guillotines and Eating the Rich Never Really Go Out of Style
May 3, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

One Writer’s Activism is Another Writer’s Terrorism
February 1, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

On Writing in a New Dark Age
September 24, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz
August 20, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times
May 10, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks
April 26, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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On the Dangers of Romanticizing Gentrification in Your Novel

Tobias Carroll Examines a Perennial Concern of New York City Lit
October 18, 2017  By Tobias Carroll
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How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

On the Troubling, Compelling Work of Curzio Malaparte
August 21, 2017  By Tobias Carroll
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The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

On the Work of Barbara Browning, Eugene Lim, Sarah Gerard, and More
June 9, 2017  By Tobias Carroll
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We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

On Recent Novels by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and More
March 30, 2017  By Tobias Carroll
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How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

Tobias Carroll on Boom-Bust Capitalism, and Stories of Austerity
February 7, 2017  By Tobias Carroll
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Did America Just Elect Baron Munchausen?

On the Appeal of Fantasists, Storytellers, and Liars
December 14, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient

Tobias Carroll on a Wide Rage of Novels Dealing with Old Age
October 18, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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