Barrelhouse

Barrelhouse is a new literary journal which will soon be launching its debut issue. I came across it via an interview at Bookslut with the founders, and found myself intrigued by their easygoing natures and very refreshing lack of pretension.

DAVE: As a married guy, I’d like to add that “starting a journal” is a fantastic and, apparently, perfectly acceptable reason to go to bars on Wednesday nights and stay out way too late talking about AC/DC and George Saunders and 90210 and Aimee Bender and, uh, the journal. Yeah, the journal. Sometimes until last call, with all the drinking and the talking … about the journal. (Honey, if you’re reading this, I’m totally kidding!)

They've already been online for a few months, so you can get a hint of what the writing is like here. And if you want to be cutting edge, a trendsetter--like me, for example--you can preorder the debut print issue right now. Who knows--it might turn out to be the next Paris Review or Granta, and you'll have a collector's item on your hands. Regardless, you'll have some good reading.