First edition Chandler on this weekโs rare list. See more here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
14.11.2025 18:40 โ ๐ 480 ๐ 45 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 9@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 weekโs rare list. See more here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
14.11.2025 18:40 โ ๐ 480 ๐ 45 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 9In this house, Satantango is considered a crime novel
09.10.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Archaic Greek Gold Plaque of Gorgon Flossing Her teeth, 7th century BC. Parco Archeologico di Himera, Palermo
05.10.2025 05:38 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Mostly full moon in blue hour sky
Yโall the moon let me photograph her
05.10.2025 00:35 โ ๐ 353 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 0Remember 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!! Weโre here at Booth 515 all day, come see us
21.09.2025 13:47 โ ๐ 212 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1I found a kidโs 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 filmโs seemingly antagonistic flavours make #Scarface a compelling watch as both a film and a cinematic artefact.
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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...
When itโs nice enough to have the door open and you get that good afternoon bookshop light
02.09.2025 21:09 โ ๐ 307 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 5#LawrenceofArabia is a classic film you canโt fully appreciate when youโre young. You must lose your innocence first, at least politically.
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"Rainy City Cars" - my oil painting, 12"x16"
28.08.2025 20:56 โ ๐ 6538 ๐ 507 ๐ฌ 183 ๐ 20Am 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 donโt remember #JamesGunnโs Guardians of the Galaxy being so funny..
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About halfway through Gunnโs #Superman, youโll find yourself wondering if you made a mistake and booked tickets for the circus rather than the cinema.
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Without the light bulbs the nightโs blackness washed right up to the churchโs front door.
Read the #flashfiction story by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
Without the light bulbs the nightโs blackness washed right up to the churchโs front door.
Read the #flashfiction story by @williamjbarker.bsky.social by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
About halfway through Gunnโs #Superman, youโll 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 Adelaideโs 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 Adelaideโs 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.socialโฌ by in #BravetheCastle here: open.substack.com/pub/bravethe...
#Kurosawaโs High and Low is as thrilling as anything made by the genreโs best directors like Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Michael Mann.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
#Kurosawaโs High and Low is as thrilling as anything made by the genreโs best directors like Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Michael Mann.
Read the review by @williamjbarker.bsky.social at #IntoTheScreen: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...