The Weekly Atticus

This Week at Atticus Review

May 21, 2022

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

You may have read on the web over the past week about The Believer, a nonfiction magazine, once owned by McSweeney's and then UNLV, and then sold to an adult website. McSweeney's have since rebought the magazine and is currently fundraising for its relaunch. Check out their campaign!

Atticus Review began life as an admirer of McSweeney's and the innovative work it has always published. Indeed, in this respect, we're currently reading submissions for our Internet-themed issue. For this August issue, we're interested in the ways the advent of the Internet Age has influenced literature, altered our sense of being and sense of belonging, made us rethink connection and connectivity, and changed our daily lives. We're open to work that interrogates and celebrates contemporary online culture, and work that considers the intersections of digital technologies in our on- and off-screen lives. Though this may sound formal, we're very open to creative work that broaches Internet culture and Internet-influenced life, in more tangential and interesting ways. Consider submitting today!

This week we're spotlighting more terrific work from our spring issue: a striking piece of creative nonfiction by Talia Aharoni, a coming-of-age poem by Sara Burge, a terrific story by Candice May. On the Attic, Elsa Valmidiano reviews Juanita E Mantz's memoir Tales of an Inland Empire Girl.

Remember you can also write for the Attic section of Atticus Review. I'm looking for articles/interviews/CNF-style pieces related to all matters literary. Subscribers of this newsletter can pitch me at: [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you. Please note that book reviews still need to go through Submittable. Check out the archives for the sort of pieces we like.

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

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

WHAT DRIVES US TO THE SUCCESS STORIES WE CHOOSE TO BEA book review byElsa Valmidiano"As Mantz shares stories of childhood trauma, she carries a comedic style which makes her kind of storytelling an art form in itself."

ISSUE ONE SPOTLIGHT

SIRENSbyTalia Aharoni"Sirens signal the end of reality, and the beginning of unreality. Nothing you see is believable. You beg yourself to wake up. Everyone around you is an absurd, badly portrayed character in your nightmare. So are you. You are certainly running like dream-you, which is to say, entirely not fast enough."

FROM THE ARCHIVES: April 2019

MY DEATHbyKatie Schmid, whose collection

is available from University of New Mexico Press."A black wing brushing the length of my spine.At nineteen, nothing was closer to me than the fearof it, the thought of it, the psych ward where I slept with ithuddled around me. And then my daughter came and took that"

ISSUE TWO THEME

For our August issue, we're interested in the ways the advent of the Internet Age has influenced literature, altered our sense of being and sense of belonging, made us rethink connection and connectivity, and changed our daily lives. We're open to work that interrogates and celebrates contemporary online culture, and work that considers the intersections of digital technologies in our on- and off-screen lives. Though this may sound formal, we're very open to creative work that broaches Internet culture and Internet-influenced life, in more tangential and interesting ways.

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