We wish you a happy holiday season. And a major award. We wish you a leg lamp. We wish for world peace. We wish for kicking words. We wish for kicking art and music. We wish for platypuses. Platypusi. That word we use that means more than one platypus. We like platypuses. We like strong dark coffee, too. We hope your holidays are filled with strange duck-billed creatures on strong coffee who will give you a leg lamp and a major award. xo, Eckleburg
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.