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This Week at Atticus Review

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

We have exciting news from Atticus founder Dan Cafaro: Atticus Books will be returning to publishing books in the spring/summer of 2023 following a seven-year hiatus. Founder and publisher Dan Cafaro is delighted to announce that the first book in the 2023 lineup will be (drum roll, please) . . .A new memoir titled They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So by Lori Jakiela. Jakiela is the author of Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, a memoir first published by Atticus in 2015. Belief, an identity-seeking adoption tale, won the William Saroyan International Writing Award from Stanford University, was a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award and the Housatonic Book Prize, and was named one of 20 Nonfiction Books Not to Miss in 2015 by The Huffington Post.Stay tuned for future announcements in the 2023 book catalogue!

On the Attic this week, Joshua Raff writes the next entry in our neglected book series. He recounts his past love of The Coral Island and whether he could read it now with his son. Also on the site Nicole Yurcaba reviews Stephen Corey's  As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New & Selected Poems, 1981-2020.

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

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

NEGLECTED BOOKS: R.M. BALLANTYNE'S THE CORAL ISLANDbyJoshua Raff"In its time, Ballantyne’s 1857 novel was a prime example of a boy’s adventure story, said to be one of the first books to feature a boy as the lead character."

BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW: As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020byNicole Yurcaba"Corey interjects keen insight and sharp intellectualism with wry, educated humor."

FROM THE ARCHIVES: January 2018

RESCUE MISSIONbyBethany W. Pope“It takes a lotto make me laugh. I am prone to sinkingin deep waters.”

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