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Tobias Carroll

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Tobias Carroll lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has recently been published by Tin House, The Collagist, Underwater New York, The Paris Review Daily, Necessary Fiction, Bookforum, The Collagist, The Collapsar, and Joyland. He is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn, and can be found on Twitter at @TobiasCarroll.
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The Rumpus Interview with Norman Lock

  • Tobias Carroll
  • June 19, 2014
Writer, playwright, and poet Norman Lock delves into his process and discusses inserting himself into his own fiction, writing from the perspective of iconic characters, and acting as the lawgiver of one's own imagination.
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Albums of Our Lives: The Thermals’ The Body The Blood The Machine

  • Tobias Carroll
  • February 6, 2013
It begins with an act of divine intervention. “God reached his hand down from the sky,” sings Hutch Harris.
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The Rumpus interview with Jóhann Jóhannsson

  • Tobias Carroll
  • November 30, 2011
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.
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Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman

  • Tobias Carroll
  • September 8, 2010
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…
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A Story of Le Loup (or: Notes For & Against a Musical Auteur Theory)

  • Tobias Carroll
  • October 22, 2009
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…
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Robot Horses Waging War on Angels: A Profile of Chris Eaton

  • Tobias Carroll
  • July 8, 2009
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,…
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