@williamjbarker.bsky.social
Editorial Assistant @quillette.bsky.social Fiction writer, film critic, journalist and poet. Currently writing my first novel.
First edition Chandler on this week’s rare list. See more here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
14.11.2025 18:40 — 👍 480 🔁 45 💬 20 📌 9In this house, Satantango is considered a crime novel
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Archaic Greek Gold Plaque of Gorgon Flossing Her teeth, 7th century BC. Parco Archeologico di Himera, Palermo
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Mostly full moon in blue hour sky
Y’all the moon let me photograph her
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Remember that time that Sigmund Freud used hypnosis to help Sherlock Holmes kick his coke habit?
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution screens this Sunday at The Roxy Cinema Tribeca, with a Q&A with author Nicholas Meyer to follow. Details: www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/t...
Good morning from the Brooklyn Book Festival!! We’re here at Booth 515 all day, come see us
21.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 212 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
I found a kid’s teddy bear in the garden fifty years after the house was condemned.
Read the #shortstory by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
The film’s seemingly antagonistic flavours make #Scarface a compelling watch as both a film and a cinematic artefact.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
It's like #DarrenAronofsky is badly impersonating himself.
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Shuang Zou, directing Mozart's opera in the Adelaide Festival this year, has turned it into an absurd mess, like a toddler gluing a jigsaw puzzle together with play dough.
Read the #operareview by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
Shuang Zou, directing Mozart's opera in the Adelaide Festival this year, has turned it into an absurd mess, like a toddler gluing a jigsaw puzzle together with play dough.
Read the #operareview by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
It's like #DarrenAronofsky is badly impersonating himself.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
Thunder-
Heavy drum beat
Shaking atmosphere.
#haiku by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
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When it’s nice enough to have the door open and you get that good afternoon bookshop light
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#LawrenceofArabia is a classic film you can’t fully appreciate when you’re young. You must lose your innocence first, at least politically.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
"Rainy City Cars" - my oil painting, 12"x16"
28.08.2025 20:56 — 👍 6538 🔁 507 💬 183 📌 20
Am I? Slit my neck
Open. Bury me. Someone
Will give me their tears.
Read the #poem by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
I don’t remember #JamesGunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy being so funny..
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About halfway through Gunn’s #Superman, you’ll find yourself wondering if you made a mistake and booked tickets for the circus rather than the cinema.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
Without the light bulbs the night’s blackness washed right up to the church’s front door.
Read the #flashfiction story by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
Without the light bulbs the night’s blackness washed right up to the church’s front door.
Read the #flashfiction story by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
About halfway through Gunn’s #Superman, you’ll find yourself wondering if you made a mistake and booked tickets for the circus rather than the cinema.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
Many of the scenes in #JurassicPark are short but they all end with you feeling that you understand the characters.
Read the review of the classic film by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
I found some Japanese efficiency in a side street in Adelaide’s East End.
Read the #restaurant review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
I found some Japanese efficiency in a side street in Adelaide’s East End.
Read the #restaurant review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
Many of the scenes in #JurassicPark are short but they all end with you feeling that you understand the characters.
Read the review of the classic film by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
Is #Tokyo even a big city?
Read the travel essay by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
#Kurosawa’s High and Low is as thrilling as anything made by the genre’s best directors like Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Michael Mann.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
#Kurosawa’s High and Low is as thrilling as anything made by the genre’s best directors like Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Michael Mann.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
