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
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
Poetry Feature: Peter Davis
There are certain things I’ve always wanted to do: learn to play the cello, win an NEA grant, be famous for single-handedly slaying a vast army of Orcs, publish the poetry of Peter Davis, etc. (See that segue there?) I first discovered Peter’s work years and years ago when I came across a poem in MARGIE called Winter with Abraham Lincoln, Continue Reading
Signified
I imagine Gordon Lish as Raymond Carver’s eyebrow waxer. Carver walks in to Salon Lish with a raging unibrow, only to emerge with a pencil-thin Joan Crawford look. HAHAHAHAHA.
Well, now. I’m being a little hard on both Carver’s unedited writing and Lish’s “generous” edits of Carver’s stories. Continue Reading
Lovechild
I have a crush on Liv Tyler.
Liv Tyler is a lovechild.
I love lovechildren.
Human products of one-night stands or fleeting relationships embody magic for me, perhaps because I imagine that being raised without a default nuclear family shifts how they look at everything else. Continue Reading
Kevin Sampsell: The Hardest Working Man in Portland
We should probably get this out of the way immediately: Kevin Sampsell is not only my friend, but also my publisher. Last year his Future Tense Books published my second book. But if my choosing to feature Kevin Sampsell here at Atticus Review bothers you, I would be very surprised. 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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