Barrelhouse Magazine

 

Barrelhouse started auspiciously in a Washington, DC bar in 2004, in between discussions of Snoop Dogg, Patrick Swayze movies, and the difficulties of getting published in literary magazines. Like a great bouncer/philosopher, Barrelhouse magazine delivers accessible reading with a smart twist.

 

You can learn more about Barrelhouse magazine in The Washington Post, or order our latest issue.

 

Issue 13

 

Devoted entirely to comedy, and shaped by only one of our editors, our latest issue is a little different and still absolutely fabulous. As editor Mike Ingram says in his introduction to the issue:

 

I hope some of these pieces might make you cry, as some of them made me cry. I hope some of them make you deeply uncomfortable, or pleasantly bewildered... I hope you’ll find at least one piece that makes you laugh with so much gusto, so much abandon, that all the people around you briefly think you’re a fucking crazy person. 

 

Featuring prose, poetry, interviews with Maria Bamford and Megan Amram, comics, and at least one haiku about Abraham Lincoln. Contributors include Lucas Adams, Leslie J. Anderson, Oliver Bendorf, Amy Butcher, Sean Carman, Adrienne Celt, Christopher Citro, Danny Collier, Mark Cugini, Patrick Dacey, Brady Dale, Erin Fitzgerald, Elisa Gabbert, Kelsie Hahn, Kimberly Harding, Victor D. Infante, Sunny Katz, Lee Klein, Steven Kraan, Allis Leigh, Patricia Lockwood, Paul Luikart, Dan Magers, Ravi Mangla, Ben Michelman, John Mortara, Sean Murphy, Shawnte Orion, Abbey Mai Otis, Holly Painter, Kate Partridge, Kathleen Rooney, Pir Rothenberg, Ali Shapiro, Brian Warfield, John Dermot Woods, and April Wolfe.

 

Laugh like a fucking crazy person. Get it today.