Atticus Books

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 [...]

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 [...]

NEW HOPE, PA–Revolution. Renaissance. Revitalization. These are the three R’s of entrepreneurship. Any small business with a far-reaching strategy craves a revolution. Any industry or community service worth fighting for—and indeed rescuing—demands a renaissance. And any age-old profession or cultural signifier embraces the promise of revitalization. Whether you’re a widget manufacturer in Fargo or a [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The planets that comprise the small press universe are a startling alignment of soaring, like-minded meteors no matter which segment of the book-loving stratosphere your earthly kind inhabits. Whether you create, disseminate, or consume literature—whether you’re a for-profit publisher, an academic journal, or an inventor of eco-friendly chapbooks, you will find nirvana [...]

Dear Prospective Author, I retrieved your book proposal on my Android, a handheld device manufactured by Motorola, marketed by Verizon, and copyrighted and branded by Google with its ubiquitous logo carved into the back surface of the phone, just in case consumers doubted for a moment the world leader in all things cyberspace. A “Droid,” [...]

KENSINGTON, MD — Tonight, as we tip our hats and we click our glasses to the passing of another year, we’ll each take away our own party favor from 2010 and when we hold it up to inspect the contents, to form an imprint of the experience, we’ll each perceive our farewell present—our Hello, I-Must-Be-Going [...]