This week Barnstorm poetry presents three more poems chosen by three more dextrous minds of the editorial staff. Enjoy them, enjoy yourself, enjoy the pillows under your head, and the...
After a year hiatus, "Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious" is back just in time for National Poetry Month. April is the (cruel) month where we celebrate the first nuanced thaw...
As 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...
Here'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...
Happy 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...
Hello 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...
In 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...
George 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...
In 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...
Congrats 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,...
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...
In case you're a lazy slug person and this is your only source of news, legendary movie critic Roger Ebert died last week. In a desperate bid to make me...