Ghost Stories and Short Memoirs

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Creative Nonfiction in Issue Five

Issue Five features, quite fittingly, five creative nonfiction essays, each of which is expansive in its memory, scope, and concerns. Kiel Gregory's "The Imitation Game"  reflects on childhood curiosity, science, and the cosmos, while an chang joon's "сарам" takes a long view to examine the deportation of Korean immigrants out of the USSR. Christina Yovovich studies a breakdown in "Book of Proofs" and Courtney Ebert's "Midwestern" sketches work and life in a factory town, but Theresa Dietrich captures the genre best in "Everything We Ever Wanted" when she writes "Maybe every essay is a letter to the younger self." Every essay addresses younger, former, and even future selves, taking the shape of a study, a sketch, a stack of translations and interpretations. Every essay is expansive, containing more than its parameters, or at least, that's what the genre invites.

  Ghost Stories in the Attic  

Swetha Amit interviews Rebecca Turkewitz today about her new short story collection Here in the Night from Black Lawrence Press. They talk about ghost stories, the horror genre, and why we're drawn to spooky stories in the first place. It's spooky season, after all, and the perfect time to get a whole collection of ghost stories.

  The Gettysburg Review  

Meanwhile, we're gutted to hear that Gettysburg College made the unexpected, and poorly announced, decision to end The Gettysburg Review. Many authors and editors have written to the university's president and provost denouncing the abrupt decision to shutter a beloved literary journal. Ninth Letter has even offered to waive submission fees to anyone who contacts the university in defense of The Gettysburg Review. Specifically, they encourage supporters to contact Bob Iuliano ([email protected], (717) 337 - 6010) and Jamila Bookwala ([email protected], (717) 337 - 6820), to share their thoughts about the merits of literary publishing for a liberal arts college whose motto is "Do Great Work."But this gets at another issue. It's been a tough few years for literary magazines, and it doesn't bode well that funding too often depends on the decision-making of a few powerful people. What would literary publishing look like if built, supported, and maintained from the bottom up? We're all writers and readers. What does a literary community really mean if not taking care of our own institutions?

In the meantime, I hope you keep writing. The world needs it.Peace,Keene ShortEditor-in-ChiefAtticus Review

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

INTERVIEW: SWETHA AMIT IN CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA TURKEWITZ"We used to sit in the bush during recess and tell ghost stories. I think, as kids, it's the only time you get to talk about these big ideas of death and life in a fun manner."

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ISSUE FIVE SPOTLIGHT

сарамby an chang joon

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