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Any Given Wednesday Afternoon

Ian Orti is co-founder of thebarnstormer.com, an online literary sports magazine, and the author of two award-winning novels, The Olive and the Dawn and L. He lives in Berlin and has six fingers, total.

  • August 7, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Boy of Summer: Six Chubby Sonnets by David McGimpsey
    by Ian Orti
  • June 23, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: A Botanical Re-Enactment of the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
    by Ian Orti
  • May 16, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: This is Fucking Happening
    by Ian Orti
  • April 17, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Pass Over Girl: A Missing Person Case
    by Ian Orti
  • March 14, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: The Savage Detective Shooting Club
    by Ian Orti
  • February 14, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: (This) is Human Contact: A Valentine Manifesto
    by Ian Orti
  • January 16, 2014
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Three Days In a Polar Vortex With a Poet
    by Ian Orti
  • December 10, 2013
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Sex Pot: A Get Right Christmas Recipe
    by Ian Orti
  • November 7, 2013
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: On the Hunting and Killing of an Extremely Rare and Indefatigable Shark off the West and Only Coast of Ecuador
    by Ian Orti
  • October 2, 2013
    Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: The Best Cappuccino in Europe, Quite Possibly the World
    by Ian Orti
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