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Vincenzo Barney

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Vincenzo Barney

@BarneysRubble0

@VanityFair contributor, confirmed lounger & proud infidel. Appears annually in @NYMag’s Christmas Issue matrix. Co-host of Quality Lit Game podcast.

NYC

vincenzobarney.com

Born December 8

Joined June 2014

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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Mar 20
Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?" My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :)
Why Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels
From unherd.com
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Jun 18, 2025
Incredible. Tucker busts out that old school Brahmin, trans-Atlantic "R" at 1:01 that Americans haven't heard since the mid-20th century.
Liam McCollum
@MLiamMcCollum
Jun 18, 2025
TUCKER CARLSON TO TED CRUZ: “You asked me why I am obsessed with Israel three minutes after telling me that when you first ran for Congress you elucidated one of your main goals which was to defend Israel, and I am the one who is obsessed with Israel—I don't see a lawmaker’s job
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Jun 18, 2025
Replying to @BarneysRubble0
Fuck I mean the Brahmin long A not R.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Jun 3, 2025
As porn becomes more and more ubiquitous in culture, the archetype of the "noble prostitute" a la Dostoevsky & Balzac continues to disappear from art.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Oct 6, 2025
Let Vincenzo Barney be the first to point out that Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon’s final novels both open in Wisconsin and end in Europe.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Oct 5, 2025
Replying to @DrewPavlou
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Oct 14, 2025
I have actually lived in Palestine, and don’t talk about it much. But in every situation and political development, the average Palestinian lives under two jackboots. I refused to engage with the Palestine protest movement during that very credulous and violent period of time two
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
@afalkhatib
Oct 13, 2025
Did President Trump give Hamas "permission" to execute Palestinians in Gaza and re-establish its grip on power? I ask some uncomfortable questions based on the President's own statements on Air Force One yesterday and the unfolding mass terror campaign by Hamas against Gazans.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Dec 14, 2024
Replying to @LKrauss1 @RichardDawkins and @DouglasKMurray
I doubt Hitch would very much respect Murray and his position on human rights, or lack thereof.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Nov 20, 2024
Read my story on Cormac McCarthy’s secret muse on Vanity Fair.
VANITY FAIR
@VanityFair
Nov 20, 2024
Exclusive: Augusta Britt is one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to dozens of Cormac McCarthy’s characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films. For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her identity and her story—until now.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Oct 5, 2025
The only way to understand Pynchon is to read him in true chronological order (and skip PTA’s adaptations): Mason & Dixon Against the Day Shadow Ticket Gravity’s Rainbow V. The Crying of Lot 49 Inherent Vice Vineland Bleeding Edge
Bernard T. Joy
@bernardtjoy
Oct 4, 2025
Below is the correct ranking for all Thomas Pynchon novels. *Valid until Tuesday.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Apr 1, 2023
The definitive review of Cormac McCarthy's career, last novels and the influence of quantum mechanics.
Cormac McCarthy Stumps in Florida
From barneysrubble.substack.com
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Sep 22, 2025
Replying to @DrewPavlou
I love how this is also his “favorite story ever” — an antisemitic fever dream he invented.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Jun 19, 2025
Replying to @AnaKrivolapova
If you talk Israel to certain Americans that inner America First accent comes out. It's incredible.
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Vincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0
Dec 15, 2024
Replying to @LKrauss1 @RichardDawkins and @DouglasKMurray
@DouglasKMurray
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@zei_squirrel
May 13, 2024
Christopher Hitchens on Israel and Zionism: "I think Zionism is a stupid idea to begin with, it's a bad idea, a Messianic idea, a superstitious idea. And it guaranteed a quarrel with the Arabs because it meant we're going to take away from you what is most precious, your land.
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