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Wednesday Linkstorm
22 May on Blog, LinkstormAs promised, today is the last ever Linkstorm. I am stepping down as the Editor-in-Chief of Barnstorm, though I’ll be staying involved in an Editor Emeritus capacity. Amy Sauber will...
Wednesday Linkstorm
15 May on LinkstormHere's a list of 65 books you need to read in your 20s. Kinda hate when people tell me what I "need to do" in my twenties. Like I "have...
Wednesday Linkstorm
08 May on Blog, LinkstormHappy 76th today to Thomas Pynchon. And happy Pynchon In Public Day to us all. Break out your homemade Tristero shirts, nerdy boys. I won't even say anything about how...
“Hermits” by Brandon Bell
02 May on FictionEpisode I. Little Dude My third day in the halfway house Little Dude broke the stained-glass window. A former resident named Jonathan had installed it. Jonathan’s story: drugs, rape...
Wednesday Linkstorm
01 May on Blog, LinkstormHello friends. It's the last week of school (forever, for me!) and it's finally 65 and sunny in NH, which means people are going full 1990s Malibu out there. Rollerblading...
Nonfiction Pizza Party
30 April on Blog, Nonfiction Pizza PartyIn Part Two of the Nonfiction Pizza Party Rest in Peace Pizza Party (NPPRIPPP), Barnstorm Editor-in-Chief Erin Somers and I talk books I need to read, novel writing, and how...
Wednesday Linkstorm
24 April on Blog, LinkstormGeorge Saunders wrote a thing about his computer desktop for The Guardian, and it's very funny and sweet. Also includes a not-to-be-missed photograph he has in his office of the...
Nonfiction Pizza Party
23 April on Blog, Nonfiction Pizza PartyIn a few weeks, I will finish my MFA at UNH, and I’ve decided to retire Nonfiction Pizza Party. To celebrate my time at Barnstorm, I asked Editor-in-Chief Erin Somers...
Wednesday Linkstorm
17 April on Blog, LinkstormCongrats to Adam Johnson, who just won the fiction Pulitzer for The Orphan Master's Son. Congrats, too, to the committee on choosing a winner this year. Also re: the Pulitzer,...
Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious
11 April on Blog, Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious.In honor of National Poetry Month, here are 5 books I’ve recently gotten my greedy little fingers and curious eyes on. I haven’t been this excited about a batch...
