Author: Atticus Books
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Classics, meet your new friend, Atticus.
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ – We started this press because we were interested in identifying works that merited a long shelf life, a life so long that people would talk about our titles for generations. That’s right, we founded this press with the wildly ambitious goal of finding “underground modern classics” or what we call Atticus…
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A Q&A with Our Founding Publisher
What inspired you to start Atticus Books? Atticus is the perfect example of an untrained creative writer being disillusioned by the mysterious world of literary publishing. Over the years I had failed to submit my random writings to journals and publishing houses mostly because I was undisciplined and had such a tough time finding my…
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Atticus Eleven: Like ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’ Only Hipper
MADISON, NJ – After months of reading manuscripts, entering and exiting a flurry of invented worlds and stories, the editors at Atticus Books are proud to announce their shortlist for 2016. In our List of Eleven, we welcome soccer players, organized teacher protests, mountain climbers, wild girls, convicts on the loose, a church arsonist, a…
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2015 ‘Best of the Net Anthology’ Nominees
The staff at Atticus Review is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology, which aims “to promote the diverse and growing collection of voices who are publishing their work online.” The anthology is published online by Sundress Publications each spring. This year’s judges are Bruce Bond, Brian Oliu, and Kate…
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Small Press Beauty and Advocacy Abound
MADISON, NJ — Atticus Books publisher Dan Cafaro has a thing with collages. He finds the whole process of creating them addicting. He also is a self-confessed indie lit junkie and small press geek, so you can imagine how much fun he had today visiting the websites of his peers and absconding with their logos.…
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A Lifetime of Inner Cultivation: Meet Davila Gonzalez
Our house is attracted to students of life and literature who passionately pursue an Atticus internship because we share, if not tilt, their world view, and we inspire them to be active members of the literary community. New Atticus intern Davila Gonzalez has a deep, enduring love for books and an insatiable desire to learn…
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Warning: This Book Contains a Dragon
MADISON, NJ — A kid named Kid. A dog named Dog. A superhero named Ben Wolf. A sort of wizard named Hyatt. A self-proclaimed king named Pike. An otherworldly monster called Samson. Together these characters inhabit Armageddon, Texas (Nov. 4, 2014 release), the post-apocalyptic, outrageously comical creation of Tommy Zurhellen. After experiencing a romp through…
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Two Atticus Titles Are Named Finalists in Foreword’s 2013 Book of the Year Awards
National magazine selects a pair of Atticus titles — a debut novel and a literary history — in its search for the best indie books of 2013. Two Atticus titles — Sidewalk Dancing and Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine — are finalists for the 2013 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards. Sidewalk Dancing, a debut novel…
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Apostle Islands: ‘Immediate and Accessible’ for Courses in Religion and Literature
APOSTLE ISLANDS. Fiction. By Tommy Zurhellen. Kensington, MD: Atticus Books, 2012. Pp. 240, $14.95. Review first appeared in Religious Studies Review (Vol 39, Number 2, June 2013) Concepts of the miraculous morph with innovations in technology, from faith healing via radio waves to the ubiquitous interconnectedness and instant “posting” of images and opinions that characterizes…
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DOL Celebrates 100 Years with a List of ‘Books that Shaped Work in America’
In honor of its centennial in 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is developing a list of Books that Shaped Work in America. The list, DOL says, is “a work in progress, and essentially always will be, since — like America itself…