
This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 622 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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My new novel Colossus is available wherever books are sold. Here’s what Bret Easton Ellis had to say about it: “Barkan is reaching back to the past, to a traditional kind of novel, one much closer to Richard Ford and John Updike ... We are...
Life without endorsements
And so another high profile election season has passed in New York City without the New York Times editorial board endorsing in any of the major races. Few, truthfully, have noticed. Ever since the Times announced...
Friday! Brooklyn! Come to Unnameable Books on 615 Vanderbilt Avenue and hear me read from Colossus. Here’s what Bret Easton Ellis has to say about my new novel: “Barkan is reaching back to the past, to a traditional kind of novel, one much...
Revisiting a 2024 take
I’m in Ottawa tomorrow at Octopus Books doing a reading for my novel Colossus. If you’re in the area, come out! And I’ll be at Unnameable Books on Friday, June 19th in Brooklyn, reading from Colossus as well. I’ll be...
How they've taken over the largest city in America
My new novel, Colossus, is out now. Get it in print, get it as an e-book, get it as an audiobook. Buy a novel that has been called a “canny, twisty satire of all-American posturing.”
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My new novel, Colossus, is out now. I'm also the author of Glass Century, Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, and a columnist for New York Magazine.
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