Justin Carroll-Allan
@jcarrollallan.bsky.social
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Father to all. Writing in Cutbank, Gulf Coast, Still Alive!, Oregonian, and more.
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Lincoln Michel
18 days ago
"My agent in particular was like, There must be sex in this novel. Please put sex in this novel!'" I talked to
@somers.bsky.social
about comic novels, writing "like a worm," and her new novel THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR (out today!)
countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
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Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/processing-how-erin-somers-wrote
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Every time I hear "burrata" I'll think of this. Incredible story.
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about 1 month ago
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Erin Somers
about 2 months ago
For Brad’s very cool and fun PTA series I wrote a little appreciation of—what else—INHERENT VICE
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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial)
2 months ago
we should all build these and sell our 'smartphones' for scrap
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I'm getting increasingly tickled by a colleague who insists on saying "what occurred" instead of "what happened" on a zoom call. Great choice, pal.
3 months ago
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I want to read the Mary Robison Giants novel so badly
4 months ago
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On this day, I find myself pondering an important question: which American writer will be the first to do the Griddy on the way to podium after winning a major award?
4 months ago
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Wait a minute, is baseball...back?
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4 months ago
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Still open to getting matching tats of that weird saxophone plane from Barry Hannah's Airships with literally anyone.
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5 months ago
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Cracking myself up by texting, "How about that Sabrina Carpenter?" to everyone in my contacts.
5 months ago
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andy vs
5 months ago
Awful time to be alive but truly an amazing time to be a hater
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The Pulitzer Prize, presented by FanDuel
6 months ago
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The "trend" of podcasters adding video on Spotify? Don't like it. Fellas, we do NOT need to see you in the unforgiving gaze of cinematic lighting.
7 months ago
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Meghan McCarron
7 months ago
I've spent the past few months reporting a feature on the rise and fall of casual dining chains. These 20th century juggernauts are struggling as the middle class's fortunes falter and Americans are turning away from dining rooms. How did this happen? 1/
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/d...
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Pizza Hut, Chili’s, Olive Garden: The Death of the Middle-Class Restaurant (Gift Article)
The boom in American sit-down chains has come and gone. What replaced them isn’t so great for human connection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/dining/middle-class-restaurant.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.3DM5.mbsn3y5Wf3uC&smid=url-share
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I'm being forced to attend a neighborhood picnic today. I plan to alienate myself from everyone I meet by claiming I'm an alpinist any time I'm asked "So what do you do?"
7 months ago
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I endured a neighbor explaining to me (for the second time) the cleverness of his new dog's name: Garrison Heeler. This is love and tolerance in action.
7 months ago
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Shushing others in public? I love it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...
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The Case for Telling Total Strangers to Shut Up
Reminding others how to behave in public is a civic duty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/magazine/the-case-for-shushing.html
7 months ago
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We gotta bring this back. Much more fun to be online.
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8 months ago
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Meghan McCarron
9 months ago
I wrote about the latest wave of tired adults (us) discovering their freezer. Move over tinned fish, it's time for frozen scallion pancakes and ice cube trays full of pesto
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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Frozen Food’s New Wave
The freezer can now be an arsenal of taste.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/02/frozen-food-reputation/681710/?gift=6xwxvTo0L8Iyz__cQM0tAmGFD8-Zz1o3_y4cYUPb-hU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Preorder this or I'll egg your house.
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9 months ago
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This is a BANGER of a lineup. Keret and Tar Heels legend Adam O'Fallon Price in the same TOC? Incredible.
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10 months ago
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Just remembered a classic prank from 2007: when my friends left their computers unlocked, I'd delete their Pandora stations and create a new one based on the music of Puddle of Mudd, Drowning Pool, and Static-X.
10 months ago
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Chilling report: an unprecedented amount of men were gifted podcasting equipment this past week.
11 months ago
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The older I get, the more I enjoy novels characterized as "sprawling."
11 months ago
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I have a huge deadline today, so of course I spent the first two hours of my morning ranking short stories that feature dogs: 1. Dog Heaven, Stephanie Vaughn 2. The Lady with the Little Dog, Chekhov 3. The Chain, Toby Dubs 4. Gurov in Manhattan, Ehud Havazelet 5. Mastiff, JCO
11 months ago
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ARLM (Always Read Lincoln Michel)
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11 months ago
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Ryan Haas
11 months ago
Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists. What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers. My latest:
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AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/
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I've been terribly sick the past few days, so of course I've entertained myself by hiding a bluetooth speaker in the living room to play "Still Ill" by The Smiths and random intervals until my family starts pleading for it to stop.
11 months ago
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I was feeling fine going into therapy until I noticed my therapist was wearing her a shirt that said "____ High School Podcast Department" and now I'm in crisis.
11 months ago
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Everyone always talks about the realists of the 80s, but the ones that emerged in the 90s (Thom Jones, Edward P. Jones, Charles D'Ambrosio, Jean Thompson, etc.) go so much harder.
almost 2 years ago
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Thinking about one of the Important Questions today.* *Which 20th century writer would be most likely to have gotten a "Why so Serious?" Joker tattoo if they were alive now.
almost 2 years ago
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Was surprised to learn that in Tobias Wolff's Art of Fiction interview, he said "Bullet to the Brain" came to him after seeing Korn's music video for "Freak on a Leash." Fascinating!
about 2 years ago
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This wiki photo from Christopher Abbott has incredible "sending photo to blind date right before we meet at Applebee's" energy.
about 2 years ago
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Back on my bullshit today: listening to Fugazi, reading Kevin Canty, wondering how the third brother fell so far off the path (plays in Ted Leo and the Pharmacists).
about 2 years ago
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Now that someone's finally invited me to this thing, I can finally enact God's Plan (posting about Korn three times a day).
about 2 years ago
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[After three hours of brainstorming first post]: Hi, I'm Jonathan Franzen, welcome to Jackass.
about 2 years ago
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