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1 A Dog's Work Joshua Barnes , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 111 2018; (p. 4-5) 'Early last year, when Robert Silvers died, one of his many former assistants recalled her time working for him at the New York Review of Books, the legendary magazine that he co-founded and edited for over half a century: His admiration for writers was unsurpassable. He was adamant that he was not one himself. ‘It’s a dog’s work,’ he said whenever anyone tried to glamorize his own fifty-year-long endeavor to facilitate the flourishing of American intellectual life. He loved being the dog'  (Introduction)
1 'People Have Always Had Bodies' : An Interview with Paul Dalla Rosa Joshua Barnes (interviewer), 2017 single work interview
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 108 2017; (p. 102-104)
1 Miles Allinson : Fever of Animals Joshua Barnes , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2015;
— Review of Fever of Animals Miles Allinson , 2015 single work novel
1 Everything Might Be Yellow Joshua Barnes , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 97 2014; (p. 62-63) 'And so I started wearing my sunglasses inside, because I liked the way everything looked through the lenses. They were an antiseptic yellow. I bought new bulbs for the kitchen fixtures so there would be more light in the house after dark, so that at night, everything might be yellow...' (Publication abstract)
1 Wash Joshua Barnes , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 96 2014; (p. 47-49)

'From up high the way the sea curls and then kisses the beach looks like a row of apostrophes, spilling onto the shore. And the colour, the blue of it - like someone shot a hundred tonnes of ink into the ground; like maybe before, once, the ocean was a grey hole in the world, just cornered by all this yellow sand. There's a helicopter up there right now and little else. The sky is nubile and flat, like a really nice placemat...' (Publication abstract)

 
1 Tiny Sharks Joshua Barnes , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 95 2013-2014; (p. 7-8) '"Remember," G. says, dunking a sachet of decaf into a plastic thermos, "the lives of these creatures are at least ten times more valuable than your own. Always remember that." And then he rolls down the big door and leaves me alone in the factory with eleven tiny sharks. They're hammerheads if I remember correctly what hammerheads look like. They're all a sort of brown colour; some are spotted and some are streaked. They move through the water slowly, never leaving even a ripple behind. I guess then that I work for a pretty neat company. Each shark is about the size of a finger. That's pretty neat. I feed them twice a shift, once at two, once at four. I drop little orange pellets into their tank and they just eat 'em, they just slide on in. I name them after food: Cheese and Tomato Sandwich, Egg and Bacon Sandwich, Burrito with Everything, Sticky Date Pudding, Enchilada with Cheese, Hash Brown. Hash Brown is the littlest and my favourite. Hash Brown has a red hue to him, I notice. Hash Brown, I feel, could be a good pal. I feel we could even grow to be great pals...'

 (Publication abstract)
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