Category: Interviews
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Six Degrees Left: Loving Lit Mags (Part One)
Some people think that once a piece of writing is published–a story, an essay, a poem, a review–that it’s finished. Kaput. A one-way transfer of info from writer to reader, like a transfer of germs, that the solitary nature of reading requires you to be quarantined with strep throat, pink eye, or other nasty ways…
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The Murky Art: an interview with Dan Cafaro, publisher of literary fiction
Being a publisher of literary fiction can sometimes draw a big question mark for a variety of reasons. What is “literary fiction” exactly, and who are the snobs that get to choose what it is? It’s easy to find ourselves in some dark waters once we try sorting “good” from “bad” fiction according to plot…
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Sifting through the Avalanche: An Interview with Travis Kurowski
Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine (Atticus Books, August 13, 2013) is a potpourri of voices dissecting the role of the literary magazine in the history of American writing. To gather these many voices within one book is no easy task. In the following interview, Paper Dreams book editor Travis Kurowski talks…
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Raised on Apocalypse: An Interview with Jared Yates Sexton
Published on the day of the prophesied apocalypse, Jared Yates Sexton’s new collection of short stories, An End to All Things, doesn’t envision the end of the world by a stray asteroid or a sudden explosion of the sun. Instead the apocalypse is explored through real, American characters who are running out of patience, money,…
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Tommy Twice, Cover to Cover: An Interview with Nathan Leslie and Jamie Keenan
It’s easy enough to get a take on a new book from reviews like this one, but nobody knows quite what’s gone into that work of art you’re holding like the author and the cover designer. Luckily for us, when it comes to The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice, both of these guys are very…
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Five Questions with Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore
We love ourselves a good independent bookseller. And when it comes to booksellers that will stop at nothing to get you the most interesting, outside-the-box, see-the-world-a-different way books out there, Gayle Shanks is hard to beat. Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona has been going strong since 1974 and isn’t showing any signs of stopping.
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‘Off the Page’ with Schwartz and Packer from THE GRIEVERS
Atticus Press has become a wee bit tired of the ubiquitous author Q&A, so instead of profiling the individual behind the words, we’ve decided to interview characters from the pages of novels we admire. Some critics might chalk this off as intellectual foolhardiness or an ill-fated attempt at reinventing a tried-and-true format (and we’d be hard-pressed…
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Meet Lindsay: Editorial Assistant
Now that summer’s well on its way, we’re proud to introduce to you the last of our four summer interns. And if you’re impressed with the wit, charm and sheer intelligence of this crew, you’re not alone. Rounding out the team is Lindsay Levy, a rising sophomore and Creative Writing major at Sarah Lawrence College…
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Meet Magdalen: Editorial Assistant
If there’s one thing anyone who’s worked in indie publishing can tell you, there’s no such thing as too many helping hands. (Well, they also can tell you that the claim “my manuscript is absolutely unlike anything written before” is far less enticing than people seem to think.) That’s why this summer Atticus is warmly…
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Meet Bryan: Editorial Assistant
At a small press that’s constantly striving to expand its horizons, there’s always more than enough work to go around. And what better way to freshen our perspective this summer than welcoming not one, not two, not three, but four summer interns into our midst? We had a feeling these folks were on our same…