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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Issue 26 is available for pre-order! We'll have it in hand *just* in time for AWP, we think, and you can get your orders in now. Look at this lineup! www.barrelhousemag.com/shop/p/pre-o...

Issue 26 cover, by Michael Bargamian. Classy couple having a nice meal in front of a wildfire. It looks very cool.

Issue 26 table of contents and I'm sorry I'm not going to type all the names here, please just click the pre-order link for a full listing of all contributors

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In my “WORDS SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING” era.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In my “WORDS SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING” era.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 19/06/2025

More SPECIMEN Blurb Week praise from Dylan Fisher: "Liu strings together minute pieces of evidence—a tender text exchange, a dreamed Parisian scene, a Bolaño quote—to imbue what we so often mistake for the casualties of everyday life with purpose and meaning." www.splitlippress.com/specimen

"Built out of the sharply-wrought fragments of a broken relationship, SPECIMEN proves to be as much a book about making sense of a complicated entanglement as it is about the intellectual and emotional development of its author," from Dylan Fisher

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

So tell me ... why is the John Templeton Foundation (an org with a history of financing conservative/libertarian/anti-science projects and think tanks) funding literary magazines?

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

From Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute: “It seemed certain that, for as long as possible, she would have to wait, remain motionless like that, do nothing, not move, that the highest degree of comprehension, real intelligence, was that, to undertake nothing, keep as still as possible, do nothing.”

It appeared certain, when you opened the door and saw the stairway filled with relentless, impersonal, colorless calm, a stairway that did not seem to have retained the slightest trace of the persons who had walked on it, not the slightest memory of their presence, when you stood behind the dining room window and looked at the house fronts, the shops, the old women and little children walking along the street, it seemed certain that, for as long as possible, she would have to wait, remain motionless like that, do nothing, not move, that the highest degree of comprehension, real intelligence, was that, to undertake nothing, keep as still as possible, do nothing.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you’re a writer on a book tour and Austin, TX is your only “Southern” stop, I have some questions!

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Every time I see a book tour announcement that skips the South, I’m reminded how insular and intellectually incurious so much of the publishing industry is.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My favorite genre of poetry is the Jenny Holzer.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Today’s dog photo. Sisters on a rainy day.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Everyone should read Grace Paley's fiction. But folks seem to anthologize "Wants" (and *only* "Wants") in spite of her many other terrific stories. Sure, "Wants" is great, AND here are a few additional Paley stories you should be reading:

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Leonard Cohen (via @zackamenetz.bsky.social at Emory’s 2025 Science on Spiritual Health Symposium): “I would say categorically at this moment that in any junkie's kitchen there is a greater contact with the spiritual world than any given synagogue on the North American continent.”

“Judaism is a secretion with which an eastern tribe surrounded a divine irritation, a direct confrontation with the absolute. That happened once in history and we still feel the warmth of that confrontation, divorced as we are from the terms of it. That happened a long time ago.

Today we covet the pearl but we are unwilling to support the irritation, the burning nucleus, and our spiritual life today has the exact consistency of an unclean oyster, and it stinks to heaven.

I would say categorically at this moment that in any junkie's kitchen there is a greater contact with the spiritual world than any given synagogue on the North American continent.”

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Today’s dog photo. A tired dog.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Flannery O’Connor: “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”

When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic. But for this occasion, we may leave such misappli- cations aside and consider the kind of fiction that may be called grotesque with good reason, because of a directed in- tention that way on the part of the author.

In these grotesque works, we find that the writer has made alive some experience which we are not accustomed to ob- serve everyday, or which the ordinary man may never expe- rience in his ordinary life. We find that connections which we would expect in the customary kind of realism have been ig- nored, that there are strange skips and gaps which anyone try- ing to describe manners and customs would certainly not have left. Yet the characters in these novels are alive in spite of these things. They have an inner coherence, if not always a coher- ence to their social framework. Their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the un- expected. It is this kind of realism that I want to consider.

All novelists are fundamentally seekers and describers of the real, but the realism of each novelist will depend on his view of the ultimate reaches of reality.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Caught the dogs frolicking in the grass this afternoon! Good for them!

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A few years ago, @daniellamazzio.bsky.social introduced me to one of her favorite movies, Kiki's Delivery Service. In a new piece for @autostraddle.bsky.social, she wrote about the movie's vision of community, creativity, & solidarity. Check it out! www.autostraddle.com/miyazaki-ai-...

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'Kiki's Delivery Service' Is a Rebuke to the Miyazaki AI Trend

It shows exactly what AI art and all it represents threatens to take from us.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Italo Calvino on his Invisible Cities: “The desire of my Marco Polo is to find the hidden reasons which bring men to live in cities: reasons which remain valid over and above any crisis.”

Italo Calvino on Invisible Cities:
“The image of ‘megalopolis’ - the unending, undifferentiated city which is steadily covering the surface of the earth - dominates my book, too. But there are already numerous books which prophecy catastrophes and apocalypses: to write another would be superfluous, and anyway it would be contrary to my temperament.
The desire of my Marco Polo is to find the hidden reasons which bring men to live in cities: reasons which remain valid over and above any crisis. A city is a combination of many things: memory, desires, signs of a language; it is a place of exchange, as any textbook of economic history will tell you - only, these exchanges are not just trade in goods, they also involve words, desires, and memories. My book opens and closes with images of happy cities which constantly take shape and then fade away, in the midst of unhappy cities.”

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Today's dog photo. My ghostwriter.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Some favorites from a visit last week to the @brooklynmuseum.org!

“Portrait With a Donkey” by Nicolas Party

“Self-Portrait in Bowler Hat” by Max Beckmann

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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

the cat is indeed out of the bag. meow. 💖 @sevenstories.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism. jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The Three Signs of New York City

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Today I learned that the poet William Blake was also the painter William Blake.

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun (Rev. 12:1-4)

From the Brooklyn Museum: Commissioned by his patron Thomas Butts, Blake created this watercolor based on a passage in the book of Revelation that refers to a "great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet" and a "great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns.”

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I saw the best films of my generation on 13 inch laptop screens.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Probably not a wild take, but these new Bon Iver tracks are particularly stellar. youtu.be/yaPX-i1TjCc?...

youtu.be

Bon Iver - Everything Is Peaceful Love (Official Video)

YouTube video by BonIverVEVO

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The light of my life, @daniellamazzio.bsky.social, has written an amazing piece about what the year's best theatre films (Janet Planet, Ghostlight, Sing Sing, and A Different Man) all have in common. www.autostraddle.com/the-best-the...

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The Best Theatre Films of 2024 Weren't Musicals

They weren't even adaptations of plays.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Today’s dog photo. Rosie prepares for a mid morning nap.

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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Excited to share my latest piece for @chicagoreader.bsky.social which looks at the First Ward's First Look community zoning process including how it came to be and what it seeks to do. chicagoreader.com/news/zoning-...

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In the zone - Chicago Reader

Chicago’s zoning process is complex and convoluted. Some local leaders, like Alder Daniel La Spata, show it doesn’t have to be.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today’s dog photo. Daisy in B&W.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“A short book is also a form. You can’t have all that lumber that is so satisfying in the old fiction.” —Elizabeth Hardwick on Sleepless Nights, November 5, 1978.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Homemade sourdough baguettes + the last tomatoes of the season (ripening off the vine)

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hot (but correct) take: Best biscuits in metro Atlanta are from Decatur's Pastries A Go Go.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

For all the newcomers: What do I post about? Books, writing, baking, diabetes, my dogs. Will I disappoint you? Probably.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today’s dog photo. Daisy in felt.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If there's one thing I'd bet my life on, it's literary magazines extending their contest deadlines.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today’s dog photo. Rosie and Daisy caught snuggling.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Today’s dog photo. Rosie staring into your soul.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Today's dog photo. A playful Rosie.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Today's dog photo. Rosie and Daisy waking up.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

First attempt at homemade sourdough bagels!

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

I hope the execs of pharmaceutical and insurance companies die painful, prolonged deaths from the illnesses they profit from.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Today's dog photo. Trying out some new (old) harnesses.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

My favorite kind of church service is @kellylink.bsky.social in conversation with Josh Russell.

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Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

"She suffers it, she curses it, but she doesn't have it, having it implies the desire to keep something close, and she desires no such thing." From "Elena Knows" by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle and published by Charco Press)

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