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Notes, thoughts, & miscellany

Tobias Carroll is the author of five books. Up next: Kill List, a book on the film for Bloomsbury Academic’s Timecodes series. You can find out more about those books here.

  • HOLIDAY CUSTOMS OF NEW JERSEY TOWNS, EPISODE 14: Okcidenta

    Travel to the end of the interstate highway near the border of Monmouth and Ocean Counties and you’ll find what remains of the town of Okcidenta, founded in 1923 and later abandoned after the mayor and town council were implicated in a horse racing scandal. The town council numbered twenty-six residents in total; the town’s

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  • Two years ago I bought a domain

    I have a “professional” site up elsewhere. In the early days of the pandemic, I thought, What if I had another space somewhere? Somewhere for, shall we say, old-school blogging? And then pandemic-era depression set in and I did nothing else with this space for months. Scratch that, a year. Scratch that, two years. But

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