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Big Bad Barrelhouse Eight:
Our latest issue includes brilliant new fiction from Aaron Burch, B.J. Hollars, John Jodzio, Andrea Kneeland, Adam Scott, and Ian Stansel. And new poems by Aaron Crippen, Taylor Mali, Kerri French, Andrea Inglese, Laura Solomon, Maureen Thorson, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Lee Posna, Meagan Wilson, Rebekah Sankey, Michael Allen Turner, Chris Green, Elisa Gabbert, and Kathleen Rooney.
Plus, the winners of our Barrelhouse Invitational: Office Life Edition, including Tadd Adcox, Killean Kennedy, Angi Becker Stevens, and Melissa Yancy. You’ll also get essays on Facebook status updates and the Big Star song “Thirteen.”
All of that tied up in our usual funky little package, this time with book cover collages strewn throughout. Buy it now!
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What’ll you get? New and established writers bringing their best, funniest, saddest, weirdest, and all around most awesome writing — fiction, poetry, and essays — delivered in a funky little package, twice a year. Work from Barrelhouse has appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading (twice in the same issue!) and Best American Fantasy.
More to the point, what would Mr. T do? We think the photograph on the right illustrates fairly clearly that Mr. T would subscribe to Barrelhouse immediately. Don’t make Mister T mad, sucka. SUBSCRIBE.
Issue Seven: Barrelhouse Presents The Future
Our Future Issue includes the futuristic Alex Irvine, Rachel B. Glaser, Ben Stein, Michael Czyzniejewski, Matt Bell, Mark Wisniewski, and Elissa Matsueda, essays from Greg Hlavaty and Ken Hines, poetry from Peter Davis, Alan Michael Parker, Caroline Knox, Mark McKee, Wade Fletcher, and Farid Matuk, and the illustrated story, written by Joni Tevis and adapted and illustrated by Kristin Leonard. Plus, writing on the future by Matt Williamson, Blake Butler, Sandra Beasley, Laura Ellen Scott, Flavian Mark Lupinetti, Kaethe Schwehn, and Kate Angus. Plus even more: photos of toy robots! Buy it now!
Issue Six: Roller Derby and Pop Culture Invitational Winners
Issue six includes the winners of our pop culture invitational and our roller derby invitational, as well as new fiction from Joel Weinbrot, Mary Miller, Jay Wexler, and others, poetry from Matthew Lippman, Nicole Steinberg, Eirann Lorsung, Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon, and gobs more. Plus an interview with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones (about treasure hunting), roller derby art by Cory Oberndorfer, the illustrated story “Cleopatra,” and much much more.
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Issue Five: The Dive Bar Issue
This issue is jam-packed with awesomeness, including fiction from Patrick Somerville and Jim Ruland, poetry from Ada Limon, Nick Courtwright, and Donald Illich, essays on the Moldovan version of the Clash and the Robert McKee scriptwriting seminar, interviews with Patterson Hood of the Drive by Truckers and film director Lance Weiler. Whew, wait a minute while we catch our breath. Okay. And the Very Special section that we’ve been working our entire lives to produce: Barrelhouse Takes a Dive: An Appreciation of Dive Bars, Taverns, Barrelhouses, Honkytonks, Roadhouses, Saloons, Lounges, and Shitholes.
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Issue Four: The One With the Rock Poster Sketches and the Hold Steady Interview
This issue features new fiction from the likes of Tod Goldberg, Paul Maliszewski, Matt Bell, and David Barringer, poetry from Jennifer L. Knox and Valhynza Mort, essays on movies and bad TV, interviews with Malcolm Gladwell, The Hold Steady, and the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe, sketches from rock poster artist Jay Ryan, and more!
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Issue Three: Saunders and Klosterman and Ed Asner Poetry!
Our third issue includes interviews with George Saunders and Chuck Klosterman, a special section featuring Ed Asner poetry, our usual mix of fabulous non-Asner-related poetry, artwork and short stories, including one about a guy who just might break things off with his girlfriend because she doesn’t have the proper appreciation for Neutral Milk Hotel, and a story by a fellow named Chris Rock, but not that Chris Rock. Plus essays on why overuse of the word “rocks” doesn’t rock, and why American Idol can never rock. All that for only nine bucks!
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Issue Two: Swayze Swayze Swayze
Our second issue includes new fiction, poetry, and essays from Brian Ames, Matt Bell, Sean Beaudion, Lee Klein, Paula Morris, Theresa Sotto, Karen Schoenhals, Tom Williams, and many more. Plus, an interview with Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Dischord Records, the Very Special Swayze Section, the Action Figure Portrait Gallery, the Illustrated Story, “Sex and Pills,” and much, more more.
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T-shirts! We have t-shirts!
Check out our t-shirt store over at Skreened.com. You’ll find Barrelhouse logo shirts, our futuristic Barrelhouse flying saucer and potentially evil robot shirts, along with our line of Snarky Writer shirts, proudly and only semi-ironically adorned with phrases like “I’m Famous at AWP,” (pictured at right, and available in colors other than that one) and “Ask Me About My Chapbook.” Celebrate your nomination with the “My story/essay/poem was nominated for a Pushcart and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.” Or commemorate the writer’s struggle with the “Best of luck placing your work elsewhere” shirt. Writing is hard. T-shirts are fun. Click here to visit our Skreened store right about now.
