Join the Barnstormer family as we celebrate: 1) Our first full year of literary sportswriting excellence. 2) The launch of Cheap Throat: The Diary of a Locked-Out Hockey Player (published as an ebook by Found Press). Sunday June 9th, 2013 Nobody Writes to the Colonel (map) 460 College St. Toronto, ON 7pm until it...
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Friday is here again and much of North America is bathed in the warm, benevolent light of the springtime sun. New beginnings for all, but none newer or bigger than for Jason Collins, whose understated and eloquent announcement that he is gay has brought on a celebration in some corners, and a lot of...
Read more →Big news here at the Barn. We are proud to announce that Found Press has acquired the rights to the lockout diary of the anonymous hockey player known only as “Cheap Throat”. Barnstormer senior editors Andrew Forbes, Ian Orti, and Mike Spry will serve as co-editors. Look for it in the coming months from...
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The Barnstormer has secured the cooperation of a locked-out NHL player who has agreed to document each day he is kept out of action on the condition that we do not reveal his identity. Ever. Read all the daily diary entries of “Cheap Throat” here. I left home when I was fifteen or sixteen to...
Read more →The Barnstormer has secured the cooperation of a locked-out NHL player who has agreed to document each day he is kept out of action on the condition that we do not reveal his identity. Ever. Read all the daily diary entries of “Cheap Throat” here. So, you know what I love about Montezuma? Every-fucking-thing. Had...
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The Barnstormer has secured the cooperation of a locked-out NHL player who has agreed to document each day he is kept out of action on the condition that we do not reveal his identity. Ever. Read all the daily diary entries of “Cheap Throat” here. So I came here expecting here to be totally backwards,...
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