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Tobias Carroll

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).


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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The Literature of Creepy Clowns

If They're Coming, You Might As Well Be Prepared...
October 7, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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The Dark Side of Office Life

Workplace Novels that Explore the Dystopic and Surreal
August 12, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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On Literary Plagues

From the Historical to the Fantastic, How Disease Scars Us All
July 22, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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When Grief Becomes Surreal

On the Reality-Bending Effects of Trauma in Literature
July 15, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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Reading the Literary City

How Urban Spaces Shape the Books We Read
May 20, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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On the Future of the American Essay

How Film and Poetry are Changing the Form—And Vice Versa
May 11, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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Infiltrating Literature’s Secret Societies

Tobias Carroll on Our Fascination with All-Powerful, Unseen Institutions
April 29, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

From the Tale of Tales to Michael Cunningham to Helen Oyeyemi...
March 17, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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How We Fictionalize Our Politics

On writing history and ideology into fictional lives
February 18, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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When Setting Trumps Character

Great Writing About Place
November 23, 2015  By Tobias Carroll
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How Board Games Got Literary

Books To Games and Back Again
November 19, 2015  By Tobias Carroll
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