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Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll is a writer and essayist, and the managing editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He is the author of three books: Political Sign (Bloomsbury), part of the Object Lessons series; the story collection Transitory (Civil Coping Mechanisms) and the novel Reel (Rare Bird).


Ley Lines, Folk Magic, and “True Detective”: Tariq Goddard on the Writing of High John the Conqueror

On the strange alchemy underlying a new detective novel.

November 10, 2022  By Tobias Carroll
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Revisiting Gary Indiana’s Bewildering, Haunting True Crime Trilogy

Indiana's books were bold, inventive, and ahead of their time.

May 13, 2022  By Tobias Carroll
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The Very Brief Heyday of Crime Beat Magazine

For two years in the 1990s, horror writer T.E.D. Klein edited the "newsmagazine of crime." Was Crime Beat ahead of its time or a sign of divisions to come?

September 9, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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Crimes Without Punishment: Inside the Narratives That Border True Crime

The books pushing at the boundaries of true crime storytelling.

January 24, 2020  By Tobias Carroll
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An Irish Author Takes the Global View

Kevin Barry's mournful crime epic pushes through boundaries

October 7, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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Why Oakley Hall (Still) Matters

Power, Corruption, and the History of the West

May 13, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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The Power of the
International Procedural

Global Crime Fiction Charts the Rise of Authoritarianism

September 17, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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When Raymond Chandler Mocked Science Fiction

On the Blurred Lines of Noir and Sci-Fi

January 7, 2016  By Tobias Carroll
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