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Literary lion George Plimpton once showed his admiration for the Café Review by giving them a free ad on the inside back cover of his influential Paris Review. The ad brought the little Maine poetry journal more attention than Luttrell ever imagined, and even a few subscriptions. But most of the phone calls and letters, Luttrell admits, came from distributors looking to carry the Café Review. “I’d sought distribution from Ingram at one point,” says Luttrell, “but just as everyone who called me up soon realized, our press run is just too small for them to touch—wait, we’re not even small,” he quips, “we’re micro!”