CHICAGO — After announcing the news of signing upstart Colin Winnette to a book contract for a 2013 release, I should be content to lay low and see how the rest of the week at AWP plays out. You would think. But no, I’m an animal and apparently the AWP conference just brings out the [...]
Dispatches from AWP: Taking It All In
CHICAGO — Digging that the Atticus Books table is near New Directions and Rain Taxi, two alternative presses that set a high bar for the rest of us. Digging that I’m in one of my favorite cities doing the thing I love, lugging books and surrounding myself with people who swear by the power of [...]
A Final Death Wish to Old-Style Capitalism?
Dear Movers, Shakers and Innovators of Publishing, Are we digging ourselves an early grave or is it a stroke of marketing genius to give away e-content? Let’s re-frame that question: when a small press launches a new title (fiction or non-fiction), is it counter-intuitively wise or just plain dumb to let consumers download the entire [...]
Reform School
In the adjacent room, Across the hall from the health care clinic, The old timer stares at his knees, gingerly raises his right hand, and blesses himself. His peers—fellow kidney disease patients—sit beside him, Blankly Many deep in thought, fraught with worries, massive and menial, Some minds kept in line by meds, Others flowing unevenly [...]
Orbiting Our Future
The launching of the final American space shuttle, Atlantis, this morning has held our attention here at Atticus Books all week long. First with our otherworldly issue of Atticus Review, and now with a poem from our publisher, we’re commemorating this momentous end of an era. While the final launch and closing of the book [...]
To Begin With
I’ve just read a query from a writer whose work I’m not sure I admire And I’ve poured another scotch. It’s Memorial Day weekend and I’m writing to put an end to the evening And I’m writing to expose myself in ways that aren’t possible when you’re sober. I’m writing because I know that writers [...]
The Scotch Trilogy, Part III: In the Delta, Too
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ (September 2005, post-Hurricane Katrina) ~ “The little shrimp Is eating ice cream,” She says, while playing With our Brittany Spaniel. “He’s been eating rocks – I’ve been watching him,” She says, Prying his mouth open To see if she can spot any. “OK, now I can pet you,” She says, forgivingly, As [...]
A Rear-Smooching Post to My Peers and Role Models
KENSINGTON, MD — Before we unveil the spiffy logo of Atticus Review and obsess about how the ink spots represent the distinct uttering of the mouthy bird who seconds as a quill pen in our funky masthead, and before we rattle on about how incredibly stoked we are to be launching the inaugural issue of [...]
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