Category: Of Literary Interest
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Notes on the Rule of Three
I. Conflict Writers are taught there is magic in the number three: your play needs three acts, your joke needs two priests and a rabbi, and your storybook needs Three Little Pigs to be complete. If that book was called The Forty-Seven Little Pigs, I guess there wouldn’t be much of a story at all…
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An Autointerview with Lee Klein, Author of ‘The Shimmering Go-Between’
Editor’s Note: Atticus Books publisher Dan Cafaro recently contacted novelist Lee Klein in search of content for the Atticus website. He asked Lee if he would be interested in delivering a free-form self-interview, with a creative nod to The Nervous Breakdown, which has used the form to great effect. Lee was warm to the idea,…
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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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Book Collecting 101: A Potpourri of Column Ideas for Sale to the Right Buyer
When I first opened Chapters Revisited, a used bookstore in Doylestown, Pa., in 1995, I was completely unaware of the nuances of selling books, particularly books that may be considered valuable because they were out of print. I also was unaware of how much money I would risk by running a “proper” bookshop of mostly…
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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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A Day in the Life of a Relapsed Bibliomaniac
MADISON, NJ — For too many years I lived in towns that either were too small, too remote, or too whitebread, cookie-cutter suburban to boast an independent bookstore. I made a point to end this trend last year when I returned to my home state of New Jersey after a twenty-year absence. It was a…
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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…
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Pushcart Prize Nominations
While we have had an exciting year of publications at Atticus Review, we were only allowed to submit six of them for consideration in this year’s Pushcart Prize competition. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of our magazine, and best of luck to our six nominees. Short-Fiction “Pythie’s Tale” by Hilary Holladay “Always” by Rebecca…
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A Writerly Farewell to Ned Vizzini
Writer Ned Vizzini took his life yesterday at the age of 32. News of this tragedy fills my Facebook newsfeed. The writer community I engage with reacts in the only way it knows how, groping for words to make sense of the senseless, offering heartfelt condolences, and writing memorial columns. I look up Vizzini’s name,…