Welcome, weblings, to the first session of Six Degrees Left, a series of online debates that pulls the plug on the respirator of consensus and delivers oxygen through heated exchange. Our panel guests—consisting of artists, authors, and thought leaders—defy these numbing, flatline times. They are our brainwave activists. Let their intellectual energy spark an inspiration for [...]
The Censorship War: A Reading in Celebration and Support of Banned Books Week
Atticus Books author Matt Mullins (Three Ways of the Saw, February 2012) reads a selection from Robert Cormier’s young adult novel, The Chocolate War (first published in 1974) in celebration and support of Banned Books Week’s Virtual Read-Out. Launched in 1982, Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read. More than 11,000 books have been [...]
Atticus Authors on the Move: September 2011
Over the past few months, we at Atticus Books have discovered the real-world paradox that the busier and more exciting this little press of ours gets, the less it shows on our website. Sure, we’re blaming it on all sorts of things, from the launching of our online journal, Atticus Review, to the signing of [...]
Atticus Review: Six Degrees Left of Literature
KENSINGTON, MD — Atticus Books publisher Dan Cafaro has organized a small team of conspirators to launch a new weekly online journal. Atticus Review is set to post its first issue on May 17. Stay tuned for more details regarding editorial staff announcements and future plans for the publication. For now, here’s the publisher’s first [...]
Nazareth, North Dakota Hits the Ground Running
When it comes to converting people to literature with integrity, grit, and plenty of soul, Tommy Zurhellen’s Nazareth, North Dakota is making believers out of even the most skeptical readers. Acclaimed as “a joy” (Publisher’s Weekly), “an epic tale in its own right” (New York Journal of Books, “vividly alive” (Erin Reads) and “the kind [...]
Updike Down
Is it just me, or does it seem that we’re losing our Great American Writers? Watching them fall like a heavy rain of letters and semicolons. I woke with that thought recently. It ended up being the opening of the first and only poem I’ve written this year.
(Life Is a) Book Review Blog Carnival
Welcome to the 60th edition of the Book Review Blog Carnival, and the first of 2011! Hosted every other Sunday somewhere on the web, the carnival gives book-addicted folks a chance to check out reviews of the latest titles, and bloggers a chance to get their book reviews into the hands of the folks who [...]
No Listless Life Worth Living
Literary Goals, Guilts and Pleasures DARNESTOWN, MD — There are those who live by the rule of the list and there are those who spend a lifetime avoiding the very thought of them. Whether you are busy spending New Year’s Day creating a laundry list of resolutions, a checklist or bucket list of to-do’s, a [...]
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