Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review

The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review is a literary and arts journal housed at The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in Writing Program. 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, metarealist 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. 

 

Currently, Eckleburg runs quarterly issues of free fiction, poetry, and a multimedia gallery with artwork, comedy spots, performance and music. Rarely will readers/viewers find a themed issue at Eckleburg, but rather a mix of eclectic works with their own individual vibes. It is Eckleburg‘s intention to represent writers and artists as a contemporary and noninvasive collective, each work evidence of its own artistry not as a reflection of an editor’s vision of what an issue “should” be. Outside of Kismet and special issues, Eckleburg will read and accept unsolicited submissions based upon individual merit, not theme cohesiveness.

 

Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald