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This Week at Atticus Review

A recap of the week's writing at Atticus Review. Intro by Christopher Linforth.

Over at Atticus Review this week, we have a series of pieces that imagine or reimagine someone else's life. Michael Minassian's poem "Amelia Earhart on Long Island" imagines a possible meeting with the famous aviator. In creative nonfiction, Mari Gabol's "Bread" recasts a relative's past life and explores food and poverty and literature. While in fiction, Edie Patterson's flash "Enamel" follows twelve-year-old Mia and her sick tooth. Lastly, over at the Attic this week, Marshall Moore reviews the novel Searching for Jimmy Page by Christy Alexander Hallberg. 

As Atticus transitions from a near-daily magazine to a triannual publication, we're now looking for original cover art for the Spring 2022 issue. We'll pay a small honorarium. Please check our Submittable page for more details and look at our recently published work to see if your art would be a good fit.

Finally, a reminder that submissions to our unthemed Spring 2022 issue close on March 15th. While over at Atticus Books, Dan Cafaro is still on the lookout for book manuscripts. He's accepting book manuscripts in several genres until March 31st!

Until next week, thanks so much for reading. Christopher LinforthEditor-in-Chief

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

BOOK REVIEW: SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGEbyMarshall Moore"Hallberg evokes the linguistic richness of South: the indirectness, the elisions, the regionalisms, the steel behind the kindness."

FICTION

ENAMELbyEdie Patterson"Did you know that teeth have blood vessels in them, in the pulp, she asks her mom, who glances over with a disgusted look. The tooth has been loose for a month and now it clings to her gums with just a few delicate veins."

POETRY

AMELIA EARHART ON LONG ISLANDbyMichael Minassian"She understood flying happenedin the mind first, like sex,or poems, words circling the globe,some crashing in the ocean,language a matter of timingand good weather"

CREATIVE NONFICTION

BREADbyMari Gabol"She stirred, shook in bicarb, sloppily plopped the mixture out and into the cast iron bastible and pushed it into the fireplace. At least there was bread. There was always bread."

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