Carlos Barragán
@carlos-barragan.bsky.social
Investigative reporter. US literary agent @ameliaatlas. UK agent @HarrietPoland (CAA). The Yahoo Boys (FSG, 2026). In London now.
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A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
London friends! I am reading for the Soho Literary Reading Series at the Big Penny Social on July 11. Get tickets for Geoff Dyer and other great writers and stay for the 600-people party.
dice.fm/event/mxeqnr...
dice.fm/event/mxeqnr...
Soho Reading Series Tickets | £3 | 11 Jul @ Big Penny Social, London | DICE
Soho Reading Series presents the Happiness and Love Gala
Readers:
- Zoe Dubno
- Geoff Dyer
- Olivia Sudjic
- Molly Steemson
- Toye Oladinni
- Orlando Reade...
dice.fm
June 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
London friends! I am reading for the Soho Literary Reading Series at the Big Penny Social on July 11. Get tickets for Geoff Dyer and other great writers and stay for the 600-people party.
dice.fm/event/mxeqnr...
dice.fm/event/mxeqnr...
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
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One thing that I will say of my upbringing is that supporting the most vulnerable in our societies is non-negotiable. As far as I am concerned, if you say you have faith but reject this basic premise you, to quote James Baldwin, "are not a believer, and I don't care what church you go to"
April 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
One thing that I will say of my upbringing is that supporting the most vulnerable in our societies is non-negotiable. As far as I am concerned, if you say you have faith but reject this basic premise you, to quote James Baldwin, "are not a believer, and I don't care what church you go to"
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Bleakly poetic finale for one of Europe’s big green industrial hopes: there’s now a homepage auctioning off the entire Northvolt factory in Sweden - complete sell-off, right down to the parking signs and bike racks.
nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1...
nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1...
May 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Bleakly poetic finale for one of Europe’s big green industrial hopes: there’s now a homepage auctioning off the entire Northvolt factory in Sweden - complete sell-off, right down to the parking signs and bike racks.
nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1...
nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1...
My 2023 Atavist story, The Romance Scammer on my Sofa, was translated into Portuguese by the fabulous Brazilian magazine Piaui Magazine.
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...
Uma jornada pelo mundo dos golpes amorosos - revista piauí
Viajei à Nigéria em busca do namorado virtual que enganou minha mãe. Acabei me deparando com uma legião deles
piaui.folha.uol.com.br
May 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
My 2023 Atavist story, The Romance Scammer on my Sofa, was translated into Portuguese by the fabulous Brazilian magazine Piaui Magazine.
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...
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We have been warned for years about AI becoming all-powerful and destroying the human race but of course the real danger is that these systems enable a lazy and reckless ruling class to offload decision-making and avoid accountability
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We have been warned for years about AI becoming all-powerful and destroying the human race but of course the real danger is that these systems enable a lazy and reckless ruling class to offload decision-making and avoid accountability
Let's do this with the Brits living in Spain just por las risas. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Migrants will have to learn English 'to A-Level standard' to get UK visa
The immigration white paper, due to be published next week, will lay out Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to get tougher on migration rules in the wake of Reform UK’s wins at the local elections
www.standard.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Let's do this with the Brits living in Spain just por las risas. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
"The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity."
www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
"The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity."
www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu
www.ft.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
"The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity."
www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
"The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity."
www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet."
www.ft.com/content/5d06...
www.ft.com/content/5d06...
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence
www.ft.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet."
www.ft.com/content/5d06...
www.ft.com/content/5d06...
Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? By @adrianhorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?
In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? By @adrianhorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
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and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech
April 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech
El mejor novelista en español de siempre. elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Muere Mario Vargas Llosa, gigante de las letras universales
El escritor hispano peruano, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010, fue autor de obras maestras como ‘Conversación en la catedral’
elpais.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
El mejor novelista en español de siempre. elpais.com/cultura/2025...
My new fav website: wtfhappenedin1971.com
WTF Happened In 1971?
Visit the post for more.
wtfhappenedin1971.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My new fav website: wtfhappenedin1971.com
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Fantastic piece by Sarah Churchwell. "The Great Gatsby is not simply a story of defeat. It is an elegy for a dream that continues to struggle on, undespairingly, even when it has already been lost."
www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
www.ft.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Fantastic piece by Sarah Churchwell. "The Great Gatsby is not simply a story of defeat. It is an elegy for a dream that continues to struggle on, undespairingly, even when it has already been lost."
www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
I guess I can call myself a writer now?
The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social
The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I guess I can call myself a writer now?
The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social
The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social
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It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.
March 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.
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You start with one word.
You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less.
Then the real work of shaping begins.
It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it.
Madness.
You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less.
Then the real work of shaping begins.
It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it.
Madness.
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
You start with one word.
You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less.
Then the real work of shaping begins.
It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it.
Madness.
You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less.
Then the real work of shaping begins.
It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it.
Madness.
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Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
bit.ly
March 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.
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if you need it:
The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist
Our digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life.
freedom.press
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
if you need it:
Je suis Khalil www.ft.com/content/bcd3...
Je suis Khalil
The fate of the detained Columbia University graduate is a test of how easily Trump can slide into lawlessness
www.ft.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Je suis Khalil www.ft.com/content/bcd3...
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Waiting for someone to float Madagascar as an option just to complete the irony
US and Israel have asked Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland if they'd accept mass transfer of Palestinians from Gaza to their territory.
They even approached Sudan, in the middle of brutal war, "with offers of military assistance against the RSF". apnews.com/article/isra...
They even approached Sudan, in the middle of brutal war, "with offers of military assistance against the RSF". apnews.com/article/isra...
AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
apnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Waiting for someone to float Madagascar as an option just to complete the irony
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Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.
www.londoncentric.media
March 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...