Why You Should Collect John Reed

Welcome to the launch of our second NFT Collection, Puppet House, a sequence of eight sonnets by New York writer John Reed. We are publishing the sonnets on Atticus Review and presenting them in the PDF booklets that accompany the NFTs. We have tutorials on our website about our NFTs. Here’s one for opening your first crypto wallet. And here’s one for collecting your first NFT from Atticus Review.

We invite you to spend time in the Puppet House, where you might be reminded of words you’ve misplaced and feelings you wish you’d forgotten.

The Gallery Model

The idea behind the “Why You Should Collect” newsletter is that we are, in part, operating our magazine similar to an art gallery model. Most art galleries curate a list of artists over an extended period of time. The gallery signs artists based on the curator’s personal taste and appreciation, and then makes an investment in that artist’s future by helping to attract collectors. This is a simplification and, as usual, we welcome your corrections, impressions, indignation, and curiosity. My understanding is that a visual artist benefits (ideally) from the right gallery relationship, and pays the gallery a commission on all artworks they sell. The artist and the gallery are therefore business partners.

That's not exactly what we're doing at Atticus Review when we present NFTs by established and emerging writers. But we are inspired by this “partnership” model, and the potential to work together to nurture and benefit from the value of the artwork, as well as the artworker.

However, we're still a literary magazine. And each writer is obviously free to publish new work wherever they want. The gallery energy is this: it’s our goal to offer you literary NFTs that we think are worth collecting. If we're offering a written work by a new, unknown writer who's just starting out (and we plan to), then the value of the NFT will necessarily rest on the quality of the individual piece. But for veteran writers and persistent sonneteers like John Reed, the collector can rest assured that they are investing in a writer with depth, breadth, and long-recognized talent.

About John Reed’s Sonnets

John Reed has been experimenting with the sonnet form for many years and his fiction, criticism, and other projects have been inspired and influenced by cultural icons as wide-ranging as William Shakespeare, Charles Manson, George Orwell, and Ana Mendieta. As a third-generation New Yorker, and a second-generation artist, John knows his way around the contemporary art world and has contributed to such respected publications as Art Forum, Hyperallergic, and Bomb.

Courtly Love*

The sonnet as a courtly love tradition includes hitmakers like Shakespeare and Dante, and it particularly showcases the poet’s originality. John Reed's contemporary approach to the constraints of the form offer wit and heartache in equal measure.

We present to you Puppet House, a sequence of eight sonnets by John Reed.

* not to be confused with Courtney Love, a troubadour of a different kind

Boo Trundle
Editor

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