Category: Blog
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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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Six Degrees Left: Loving Lit Mags (Part Five)
The newly published Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine records the history of the American Lit Mag with essays and articles from the onset of print to the digital age. This round of Six Degrees Left brings together a group of dedicated lit mag lovers–real writers and editors, some who have pieces in Paper Dreams, as well as others…
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Six Degrees Left: Loving Lit Mags (Part Four)
The newly published Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine records the history of the American Lit Mag with essays and articles from the onset of print to the digital age. This round of Six Degrees Left brings together a group of dedicated lit mag lovers–real writers and editors, some who…
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Six Degrees Left: Loving Lit Mags (Part Three)
How did you get to know your first literary magazine? Was it in person? Online? The newly published Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine records the history of the American Lit Mag with essays and articles from the onset of print to the digital age. This round of Six Degrees Left…
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Six Degrees Left: Loving Lit Mags (Part Two)
If you love literary magazines, perhaps you’ve thought or even tried (maybe successfully) to start one of your own. Maybe you’ve got a list on your laptop of possible lit mag names, or have written down graffiti messages or phrases your friends say that make a lot more sense in context. The newly published Paper…