Atticus Books

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 [...]

As a writer, I may strike you as the kind of guy who thinks of fonts as key. On the contrary—although my head is usually full of words, the font they’re cast in seldom enters my mind at all. That’s why it came as somewhat of a surprise when my publisher, Atticus Books, asked me [...]

When Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was published in 1987, I was a sophomore in college and a Douglas Adams fan, so I picked up a copy, his first book that wasn’t part of The Hitchhiker series. In the book was an odd note, wherein Douglas Adams felt the need to say that the book [...]

KENSINGTON, MD — I heard from a writer that today is National Writing Day. You’d think as a publisher, I would have known that or heard about it before dinnertime, but at least the entire light of day hasn’t gotten past me. So what makes today any different than, say, yesterday? I mean, if you’re [...]

i feel inspired by a more than capable comrade (who has written observations on poets and poetry titled ‘how to be a poet. for idiots.’) to issue forth observations on gooder writing. i have from time to time been known to offer something or other to those who seek it. not all of this something [...]