Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

writer / editor formerly @NewDirections @MelvilleHouse currently board member @andothertweets writing a novelized portrait of Washington D.C. michaelbarron.co Washington D.C. Joined January 2019

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

4 weeks ago

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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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

a month ago

It's true, I did.

Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste

a month ago

It's true, I did.

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NYT Obituaries @NYTObits

a month ago

Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state. nyti.ms/3JoIuF3

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Mikra Namani @mikra_namani

2 months ago

⁦⁦Gone to Prizren this summer with ⁦@xlorentzen,⁩ @suzana_vu_go⁩, Ryan Ruby, Josh Furst, and Ervina Halili.

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

2 months ago

RIP to a legend. I've loved Black Sabbath since the eighth grade.

NYT Obituaries @NYTObits

2 months ago

RIP to a legend. I've loved Black Sabbath since the eighth grade.

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

2 months ago

Works of a genius in her original language

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

2 months ago

A detailed list of all 146 women tried for witchcraft in Zagreb’s history.

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

3 months ago

Grave of Natalia Ginzburg and fam in Verano Cemetery, Rome.

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

3 months ago

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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Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste

3 months ago

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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Dalkey Archive @Dalkey_Archive

3 months ago

Twenty years in the making.

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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

3 months ago

Party at my place in Florence for expat New Yorkers to come celebrate Mamdani’s win

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Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste

3 months ago

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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Krithika Varagur @krithikavaragur

3 months ago

PRETTY COOL -- world's first excerpt of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOL. III by Solvej Balle in THE DRIFT ISSUE 15!!!!!!! thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1… @thedrift_mag @NewDirections

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Elisa Gabbert @egabbert

3 months ago

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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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

3 months ago

summer read

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Devon Walker-Figueroa @DeVonciFig

3 months ago

I have a math-loving poem in @thenation: thenation.com/article/cultur…

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquart

4 months ago

Lapham’s Quarterly is coming back this summer.

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A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness

4 months ago

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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Michael Barron @_michaelbarron

4 months ago

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.