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Acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions ... Read More

Two or three things we know for sure, and one of them is today is Dorothy Allison's birthday. Born in Greenville, South Carolina on April 11, 1949, Dorothy Allison is an accomplished writer and speaker who is not shy when it comes to talking and writing about the hard things ... Read More

Acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions ... Read More

Congratulations to Chelsey Clammer on the event of being born. We are so happy she was. Help us celebrate Chelsey's birthday, today, by wishing her well and checking out the fantastic work she has been up to! XO, Chelsey. Happy Birthday. Love, Your Eckleburgers ... Read More

Acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions ... Read More

Eckleburg‘s NY Editor, Lisa Marie Basile, discusses her history with the Review, life in NYC and her goals as Assistant Editor and NY Coordinator. Q: How did you learn about/become involved with Eckleburg? LMB: In 2009-2010, I was writing both fiction and poetry. Heavily influenced by magic realism, after devouring everything by ... Read More

Q: In your opinion, was T. J. Hooker named after Dr. Eckleburg? A: I have often wondered this myself and I’m so glad you asked the question. I think so. And since you’ve brought this up, may I add that my initial concern with the journal and T. J. Hooker ... Read More

My fiction resides in dreams, memories, the thoughts that cycle through my head trying to find a way of escape. I remember dreams as if they have happened to me, memories as if I have conjured them in some half-sleep state. I believe things happen in some indefinable reality but ... Read More

The word “unpacking” has always resonated with me. It’s a word I remember hearing from one of my writing professors, relating back to clarifying imagery. It even has origins in the first poem I ever had the honest confidence of submitting to publications, in which an excerpt reads “lies the ... Read More

The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review published Linda Kalaj's translation of five poems by Saša Perugini. Below, she writes how the craft of translation is more than just Literary Recycling.   Every creative work begins in that space where intangible facets such as the imagination, sub-conscious or creative spirit reside. Writing thus becomes the ... Read More

Vademecum Magazine publishes poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, and black and white photography authored by teenagers. The editors at The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review are jazzed about this even though we are no longer teenagers. Due to our undying admiration of Vademecum, we were tickled when we had the chance ... Read More

When I lived in Serbia, there was nothing I hated more than going to Serbian villages. They were a symbol of boredom to a young city girl hungry for the exciting, different, sophisticated, skyscraper-and-concrete world outside of Serbia. But now that I have lived in the United States for ten ... Read More

Sarah Arvio's night thoughts is a unique memoir  told through poetry and notes in order to come to terms with past crises. The poetry makes tangible dreams Arvio had about past trauma, and in the notes section she discovers the meaning of those dreams. Not only is her poetry stunning, but the ... Read More

"Penciled notes [in a text] indicate a curious mind, kind and meditative, one that grapples with ideas, links notions from one book to others….[making marginalia is] more like a way of seeing, a way of being in the world—or rather, of being not in the world, but in its wide-open, ... Read More

Barry Palmer, an intern for The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review discusses writing, characters, and what's not for your granny. Q: How did you learn about Eckleburg? Barry Palmer: I first heard about Eckleburg while looking over information for the Johns Hopkins MA in writing program some years back. It definitely ... Read More

Question: How did you learn about Eckleburg? Richard Perkins:  I took the intern class taught by Rae Bryant because I wanted a better feel for the editing process at literary journals and I wanted to sharpen my critical reading skills prior to setting out to finish a collection of connected ... Read More

Intern Debbie McCulliss describes how she became with The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review and her interest in writing. Q) How did you learn about Eckleburg? Debbie McCulliss: I took a class with Rae Bryant (Editor-in-Chief of Eckleburg) my second semester in the MA in Writing Program at the Johns Hopkins ... Read More

Bird Marathe was last year's third-place recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.  Submissions to this year's contest are due midnight, New Years Eve. Submit here! Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself (Other than being a writer, what else?)Bird Marathe: Once I tried to clean a shadow off ... Read More

Miguel Laino's art is on exhibit at the Eckleburg Gallery. Recently, he chatted with Eckleburg about achieving purity in his paintings.  Eckleburg: Your characters seem to be part of an absurd scene or one of melancholy. Is this intentional?  ML: My work is first and foremost figurative. Shape and composition ... Read More

Eckleburg's Editorial Assistant, Peter Goodman, discuses his experience in the M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins University, what type of writing draws him in, and some of the pieces Eckleburg has published that his life would be incomplete without. Q: How did you learn about/become involved with Eckleburg? Peter Goodman: As I ... Read More

Jill Birdsall was last year's first-place recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.  Submissions to this year's contest are due midnight, New Years Eve. Submit here! Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself.  Jill Birdsall: I live in a house built from salvaged materials where unlike the narrator ... Read More

Ashley Inguanta discusses her art with Eckleburg. Her works are on exhibit at the Eckleburg Gallery. She invites us to consider layers and energies that embody us. I want to shape a moment for you: Twentynine Palms, California desert. 2011. Mid-morning.  Lava-rock mountains surround. I drive, dirt rising from the ... Read More

In the essay below, Kim Buck, whose drawings are exhibited in the Eckleburg Gallery, likens her drawings to the unceasing efforts of Sisyphus. I draw. Inspired by a broader theoretical framework informed predominantly by the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus, as well as my own growing understanding of the ... Read More

Prompt I don’t mean to imply that I often use formal prompts. Mostly the prompt is just an idea that comes from my own head or from a thing that I see or notice -- whatever first gets me thinking about a story. In the case of How to Bet ... Read More

The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review now offers a wide range of workshops! From How to Write a Killer Essay to Magic Realism workshops, not to mention the Intelligent Eroticism in Literary Fiction, Flash Creative Nonfiction and Flash Fiction workshops, we've got some amazing opportunities for you to workout those writing ... Read More

Dmitry Borshch discusses his art, which is viewable in the Eckleburg Gallery, and why only certain colors harmonize with white.   Eckleburg: What motivated you to make the works that are posted to Eckleburg?   DB: I distinguish between narrow and broad motivations, which may not always interact. The second ... Read More

Jeremy Freedman, an artist whose works are exhibited in the Eckleburg Gallery, discusses his artistry with Eckleburg and why he prefers making pictures to painting. Click here to view his art. I am not interested in making photographs as much as I am in making pictures. Sometimes photographs have too ... Read More

MB Jones, an artist whose works appear in the Eckleburg Gallery, discusses his art, in the context of history and modernity. Click here to see his paintings. A painting is a form of communication. It is the best form of communication because the audience simply can’t resist looking and reading ... Read More

Ira Joel Haber, an artist whose works are published in the Eckleburg Gallery (click here to view his works), discusses his life as an artist and how he will never stop making art.  Nature frightens. No slow early autumn walks in the country for me. Nature is a mother with ... Read More

I am a screen and fiction writer born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles, where I became obsessed with canyons, quartz, and the Grateful Dead. When I moved to New York in my early twenties, I steered my fascinations towards the discovery that a huge slab ... Read More

I had always wanted to write a piece that was numbered -- a short fiction piece or prose poem. I had read a number of them from many masters -- Charles Simic or Tomas Transtromer -- and even a handful of my contemporaries: Lydia Davis, Amy Hempel, and Harryette Mullen ... Read More

My series 8 Tautologies is the first piece of writing I produced as an amateur. At least, it was with this series that I consciously wrote like one. By amateur, I mean a writer who has given up the fantasy of professionalism—that is, making a living by the pen. It ... Read More

ADDRESS:  San Francisco-ish ECKELBURG MEMBERSHIP NO.:   1178345 I, Trevor J. Houser, hereby certify that my story, Malta, is correct and perhaps true to some degree, and that the rules as set out by The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review for claiming a publication have been complied with in full. ORIGIN ... Read More