Samuel Rafael Barber
Samuel Rafael Barber is 0.00000001253133% of the population, a Chicano from South Texas, and the author of the chapbook Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located across Five Landfills, That if Pieced Together Form a Message. A PhD candidate at the University of Denver, his fiction appears in DIAGRAM, the Normal School, Passages North, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. According to life expectancy tables, he will live another 51.2 years.
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A Guide for Boys: Adventures and Other Ventures in Human Capital (Ages 6+)
JAR OPENING There are certain expectations everyone has of a Boy, fair or not. One of these expectations involves jar opening. So many jars are so difficult to open, Boys. Especially pickle jars, from our experience. Not even jalapeño jars are as difficult to open as pickle jars. Not even olive jars are as difficult […]
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We Didn’t Have This Book When We Were Boys
Samuel Rafael Barber, author of “A Guide for Boys: Adventures and Other Ventures into Human Capital (Ages 6+)” from Volume 72.2, gives us insight into the origins of and voice behind this novel excerpt. We didn’t have this book when we were Boys, so I had to write it. Read this book to […]