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Bel Canto
Nashville is best known for its super-short stories—the ones that last around three-and-a-half minutes and are accompanied by an acoustic guitar. But we—and I can only say “we” because I have recently made peace with having lived here all my life, and am inching toward a sense of belonging I’ve never felt before—are becoming a classy literary hub too. Continue Reading
Song for the Deaf
When Tony Sutter gave his first solo performance in fourth grade music class, his chattering classmates shut up and his music teacher’s fingertips froze on the ivories. Up and down the hall of Ermine Elementary, the other teachers lost their places in mid-lesson monologues and their students quit strategizing about how to improve their positions in the lunchroom line Continue Reading
Certain Celebration
Tonight Bobby Bellini is celebrating. In fact, he is celebrating this very moment. And though it is a hellacious celebration, one his neighbors will surely phone the authorities about, there is but one missing ingredient.
So Mr. Bellini slides the record from its sleeve, places it carefully on his turntable, watches ceremoniously as the needle descends upon it Continue Reading
The Choice
Remember what I told you on the way back from the bookstore?
I want to remember, but I don’t.
You don’t? I wrote it down after I watched you from across the room. There she is, and I’ll be dead soon. Continue Reading
Fight for Your Long Day: A Comic Adaptation, Episode 2
Atticus Review is proud to present the second installment of Nathan Holic’s comic series adaptation of Fight for Your Long Day, the novel by Alex Kudera. We’ll be sharing a new episode each month and hope you’ll check in to watch as the series unfolds. Continue Reading
What Makes a Man Good?
Matthew Salesses is many things: male Homo sapiens sapiens, husband to female of same species, father to a baby girl, fiction editor at The Good Men Project, columnist at GMP, short story writer, novelist. I’d say that Matthew Salesses has little time on his hands and–had he world enough and time–he might play a little more coy with his writing. Continue Reading
Boo Radley’s Back Pages
May 15, 1856: The would-be birthday of American author L. Frank Baum, the wonderful wizard behind Oz.
"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
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