All posts by Tobias Carroll

November 30th, 2011

The Rumpus interview with Jóhann Jóhannsson

The Icelandic musician and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson specializes in disparate, subtly moving themes and careful musings on the ways in which industry and society intersect. …more

September 8th, 2010

Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman’s fiction is elusive stuff. His is a body of work that’s equally at home rooting narratives in history or playing textual games with the reader. Even his more historically-based work delves into unexpected societal corners, including post-Cold War Russia and the funk-rock scene of the 1970s. …more

October 22nd, 2009

A Story of Le Loup (or: Notes For & Against a Musical Auteur Theory)

My first introduction to Le Loup’s debut album The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly came in isolation. This was an album to be listened to in private: the album’s arches and corridors providing a space in which a long-form writing project I was striving to complete could be realized. …more

July 8th, 2009

Robot Horses Waging War on Angels: A Profile of Chris Eaton

There are bodies, and there are words. The bodies shift sides and see their components replaced; they look in mirrors and see themselves made horrific, the mechanical overtaking the organic, and they ask themselves whether they can still feel, still love. …more

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Tobias Carroll Tobias Carroll lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has covered music and books for a number of publications, and his fiction has appeared in THE2NDHAND, 3:AM, Vol.1, Word Riot, and as part of Featherproof Books' "Light Reading" series.

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