Vincenzo Barney
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Read my story on Cormac McCarthyâs secret muse on Vanity Fair.
Exclusive: Augusta Britt is one of the most significantâand secretâinspirations in literary history, giving life to dozens of Cormac McCarthyâs characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films. For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her identity and her storyâuntil now.
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@LKrauss1 @RichardDawkins @DouglasKMurray I doubt Hitch would very much respect Murray and his position on human rights, or lack thereof.
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The definitive review of Cormac McCarthy's career, last novels and the influence of quantum mechanics.
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Christopher Hitchens on Israel and Zionism:. "I think Zionism is a stupid idea to begin with, it's a bad idea, a Messianic idea, a superstitious idea. And it guaranteed a quarrel with the Arabs because it meant we're going to take away from you what is most precious, your land.
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All writerâs die twiceâexcept for Martin Amis. The definitive appraisal of Amisâs corpus.
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@Graham__Hancock Where on Earth does white supremacy come into the theory at all? I've long followed Hancock's work and my assumption is that the advanced civilization is ancient meso-American - that is, NOT white. like, at all. .
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@luxembourghini @Caelliox @MissPavIichenko The great thing about human brains is they're actually able to separate the importance and valuation of someone's work from that person themselves. Apparently, one is still about to read and benefit from 1984, while also knowing Orwell was reactionary. Interesting, eh?.
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I just wrote a big piece for a website about my Vanity Fair story that went viral and made everyone hate me. I've researched X's engagement algorithms and so say unto you, click the link in my bio.
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I went to @Harpers + Red Scare's event last week, paneled by @deankissick @annakhachiyan and @dash_eats. I thought it was great and culturally significant and took a week to thoughtfully explain whyđInterview with Dean at end of piece. Pull-quotes belowđPhotos: @manabovetown
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"Unfortunately, the impact of Barneyâs good work is undone by one inescapable fact: he cannot write. [. ] If you want to play a game with Barneyâs piece, close your eyes and scroll to a random paragraph to see if it makes any sense. Fair warning: you will never win. Barney is.
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@DouglasKMurray The hypocrisy of Douglas Murray: he cribs Vidal (a gay man)âs point about there not being such a thing as the âgay community;â extends this to âthe working class,â âwomen,â etc.; before turning around and starting his book off by saying, without quotations: I love being white.
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@NBCSCycling Pure envy! @TamauPogi is getting ready to stomp in the Tour. Itâs not his fault heâs an entirely different class of cyclist. One of the most likable and popular cyclists in recent memory.
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My first podcast appearance 𤊠in which I break the good news that Cormac McCarthy hated Infinite Jest. It was the reason he stopped reading contemporary fiction. Thanks @vylpill !.
Now, for the first time ever: here's what Cormac McCarthy thought of Infinite Jest. You heard it here first on Conversations With Prostitutes.
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@RonyVernet I spotted in MA two nights in a row (Dec 6+7, none last night) and reported to the FBI. I havenât heard anything back but they asked detailed questions that were not dismissive and seemed to me that they were working from a prior knowledge base about this phenomenon.
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@AnaKrivolapova Not to mention dogs are increasingly anxious messes bc theyâre never let outside or off leash or allowed to play with other dogs. Modern pet owners are irresponsible.
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@isa2001m Youâre telling me they went after this and not Karyn Olivierâs found lobster pots from Maine which âinvoke a memory of the workâs oceanic origin but also of the practice of trading salt for enslaved people in Ancient Greeceâ? Bad taste.
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What's embarrassing for my critics (and don't get me wrong: also for ME) is that of the THOUSANDS of people who have negatively quote tweeted me, liked those qt's, and wished me dead etc. for my piece and its take on Red Scare & contemporary art, according to my metrics only
if you had any doubt whether the Cormac McCarthy muse article guy sucked hereâs absolute confirmation.
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@wastemailing Make sure youâre reading all of Barnes. Ladies Almanack is criminally overlooked, most just read Nightwood.
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@MattPolProf Critics of Marx should at least pay him the courtesy of having read him. Intellectuals ought to "wrestle" with their opponents, so to speak.
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@AlchemyAmerican @drmichaellevin @getjonwithit A computational understanding of the physical world is a misunderstanding of the physical world. Every era of civilization we've equated our current level of technology with the underlying basis of reality. It's what got us into the mechanistic mess in the first place.
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@SavageSports_ Itâs wild Mahomes can be caught on a live mic asking a ref to tell him when a defender is near and no one can do anything!.
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@Lennyn10 @LKrauss1 @RichardDawkins @DouglasKMurray Yes. Hitchens was able to hold this opinion and believe that human beings have the right to life and sovereignty. Give it a try.
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A little bookchat between me and @slicesofanxiety. Enjoy!.
@BarneysRubble0, fresh off his latest @VanityFair piece on Cormac McCarthy, is the next guest to tackle the Books to Bury Me With questionnaire. Expect sharp, no-bullshit takes.
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Why does everyone involved in UAP disclosure look like an alien?
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@Perez_Writes I also love the phrases âliterary novelâ and âliterary fiction,â the tacit understanding that none of this is Literature.
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@annakhachiyan IDW types are just mid-90s/early 2000s consensus centrists that seemed momentarily radical 20 years removed into the heyday of wokeness.
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Ok, now that the Pentagon, FBI and local NJ officials and congressmen have acknowledged these crazy âdronesâ or UAPs flying over NJ (according to Congressman Jeff Van Drew theyâre Iran, according to Pentagon theyâre not ours or a foreign adversary or hobbyists), I donât feel like
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@celestialbe1ng Natural/âwonkyâ teeth is the last frontier of real human beauty and individuality.
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Punishment by death is the airtight, very professional and mentally stable critical style of the future! Editors, remember the name @thomashobohm when he lands in your inbox. You will NOT want to miss out on his insightful, penetrating death lists!.
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Very proud to have written the second most read story in Vanity Fair this year, published just four weeks ago.
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"But if reviewers are let down because they didnât come away from a Red Scare event with their dreamed-of 'callous pull-quotes [âŚ],' then perhaps they should reconsider their dreams."
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Thanks to @RealClearBooks for shouting out my piece, "Who's Afraid of Red Scare?"đ
Monday reads: @ChristineEmba for @WCrowdsLive, @fredbauerblog for @commonplc, @BarneysRubble0 for his S*bstack, @tinndfishmonger for @Athwart_Mag, @SpencerKlavan for his S*bstack, @jackfowler for @NRO, and many others.
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@eddampier @LKrauss1 @RichardDawkins @DouglasKMurray Iâve read every collection of Hitchâs essays, never seen a Douglas Murray in there.
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"Barney is airy, light. The heaviness of Twitterâs takedowns on his low-buttoned-button-up, his very-Vincenzo hair [. ] none of it has fazed him in this interview. [. ] Itâs a 12/10 publicity performance, and the best part is that it caused even more talk about the piece, which
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@bernardtjoy I never understood those reactions of people, that they couldn't read it because it was too violent. First of all, it's just a book, second of all there's so much more going on than just senseless mayhem -- though there is that oo.
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In which my style is compared (just briefly and in a mix of praise and dispraise) to Denzel Washington.
I am sad to say that GLADIATOR II was not very good, but I did enjoy discussing why it wasn't very good with @petersuderman and @AlyssaRosenberg on Across the Movie Aisle. Also talked Cormac McCarthy and *that* Vanity Fair piece.
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When sites like GoodReadsâwhich are frivolous, arbitrary and hindering to art and criticism and include 2 stars reviews by people who admit they probably couldnât get into your book bc they had a lot of personal shit going onâmonopolize the priorities of literary agents, I see.
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The last straw with ordering books from Amazon is that half of them are made to order in a plant in Connecticut. You think you're paying $30 for the Penguin Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy but you get some cheap unreadable photocopied object that smells like computer paper.
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@simmysamsozzle @luxembourghini @Caelliox @MissPavIichenko Besides the fact that, written in 1948, it's the blueprint of the GOP in 2020?.
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"The first question from the audience after the talk about whether Lily Philipâs recent 'feat' of sleeping with 100 men in one day was a work of performance art, shows better than anything how post-modernism will invariably bring a civilizationâs art from Dada to nada.".
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Nothing makes me feel more valued than being wished dead! đ.
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@eddampier @LKrauss1 @RichardDawkins @DouglasKMurray 2006 was a long time ago. Hitchens was an anti-Zionist up until the end and would have found Murrayâs support for the IDF logically contradictory and unquestioning. That Murray is not even open to the slightest question about IDF conduct is intellectually unrigorous.
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@manabovetown "Her primary feelings of violation are not physical, but metaphysical. Which is curious insofar as it relates to Barneyâs critics â in ignoring Brittâs sentiments, theyâre by proxy imposing their worldviews unto her." Bravo.
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@bigjimmurray Have the Chiefs ever won a meaningful playoff game in which they âjust let them play?â.
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Love how on this site youâll get dozens of likes and retweets and 1000s of views and only TWO will click on your article.
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@AmericanGwyn Iâm taking Chris Stevens from Northern Exposure whose style DFW absolutely aped.
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My review of Henry Beanâs Nenoquich. Itâs a rare and happy occurrence when we can judge a book entirely by its epic cover.
"'The Nenoquich' and all its McNally-restored Nenoquichery bears the silver of the knife, a knife edge so sharp you miss the incision only to feel it twist in your stomach." Vincenzo Barney (@BarneysRubble0) reviews Henry Beanâs âThe Nenoquich.â
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@TahaNasser_ @jordanbpeterson But thatâs how Peterson builds his platform, making judgements without proper study of the facts. JP debated a Marxist having only read the Communist Manifesto back in uni. not sure how he gets called an intellectual having never read the arguments against his positions ever.
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@maxdaniellawton Thereâs a great footnote in Strong Opinions about how Vladimir did not remember Pynch as a student, but Vera did because of his strange handwriting.
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@OedipasKvass Was not his roommate, but the book and Farinaâs style was hugely influential on the Pynchmeister. Incredible novel. Read his short stories too. Criminally underrated.
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@TheUntranslated The thing is though, youâd just move to a new house with it, and the fires would follow you in Slothropian fashion.
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@bigjimmurray Insane. Do NOT let Felger blah you when the Cheats win this game. Egregious penalty calls.
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Great piece.
Publishing office holiday parties of yore, director's cut. More excess! More hangovers! More smoking!
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Honored to appear on @emeriticus âs podcast to talk Cormac McCarthy and the null prospects of LLM and generative AI creating art.đSpeaking of which, hereâs Grokâs image of me on a podcast.
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đBREAKING: Michel Houellebecq has turned off comments on his Instagram account after LEAKED DM confirms Barack Obama is leaving Michelle for him after AFFAIR.
đ¨ BREAKING: Jennifer Aniston has turned off comments on her Instagram account after LEAKED DM Confirms Barack Obama is Leaving Michelle for her after AFFAIR
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@grantmaxwell Thatâs bc Foucault and Derrida are literature, not philosophy. I consider Foucault one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century.
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I havenât heard anyone say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays once in public so far this holiday season.
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@ggreenwald Agreed. Taibbi's criticisms are of "corporate anti-racism", which is a predominantly white-invented maneuver commodifying at the individual, menial level actions and sentiments toward race that simply support and reify white corporate power structures from the bottom.
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In America you can only do sex work as long as everyone gets to watch, preferably for free on the internet. If you want to do it in private and not share video of it the spurned and uninvited get very âmoralâ and want to put you in jail.
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