All Hands On: A THE2NDHAND Reader

by Todd Dills (Editor)

An anthology of works published in the THE2NDHAND (Chicago's broadsheet and online magazine for new writing), ALL HANDS ON straddles the line separating the traditional and the new, its pages a mini tug-of-war between beautiful, campfire-style storytelling and high voltage experimentation.

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Todd Dills is the author of a novel (Sons of the Rapture, Featherproof 2006) and the 2013 Triumph of the Ape short-story collection. He's also the editor, publisher and founder of Nashville-based occasional book and online lit publisher THE2NDHAND (http://www.the2ndhand.com), for which he edited too book-length collections of short fiction, "All Hands On," published in 2004 and 2011, respectively. He lives in Nashville, Tenn., where he also works as senior editor for Overdrive magazine. He finished an M.F.A. at Columbia College in Chicago in 2003.

Reviews

[Jason Jordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

First and foremost, you must know that All Hands On, THE2NDHAND's latest release, is a great read. The large compilation features a myriad of authors from all over the country, and a few contributors hail from Chicago, which is the base for the broadsheet and online publication edited by Todd Dills. All Hands On is divided into five sections; the impeccable organization found within is one of the finer aspects of the book. "Think Like a Mountain" contains "near-speculative extremes in content and diversity of aesthetic," writes Dills in the introduction. Other components, such as "Rock 'N' Roll" and "Itinerary," should be self-explanatory with regard to subject matter....

Read the rest in the September 2004 issue of decomP .

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed most of the writing included in this compilation. But I especially enjoyed the story by elizabeth crane, I was laughing out loud.

[michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

genius.