Technically, our tenth isn’t till 2014, but we’re already gearing up for a TEN-tacular year. We just received the artwork for the anniversary poster, as well as some fabu key chains we’ll have at our AWP book-fair table. And there’s WAY more to come. Beginning with our November issue, we are extending our reach, if …
The blog was silent on Friday to mark the sudden passing of Sarah Richards Doerries, a contributor to our Winter 2008 issue who had been steadily and generously reading CR submissions for more than a year. She volunteered for this work because she loved it, and the editors here looked forward to her informed and …
You know how when you’re not sure what to order for lunch you throw a dart at the menu? No? Really? Just us? Okay, then you know when you aren’t sure how to stop your mother-in-law from buying you t-shirts with cute critters on them (because six is enough) you send a letter to Ann …
Brian Brodeur: As part of my reading for qualifying exams here at University of Cincinnati, I’ve been researching a module on Contemporary American narrative poetry. Though unfairly regarded by many poets and critics as déclassé, this poetic genre has enjoyed something of an awakening in recent years. I’m thinking not only of the verse novels …
Alice Munro has been named the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Way back in 2006, The Cincinnati Review featured three reviews of her collection The View from Castle Rock. Did our prescient Managing Editor Nicola Mason call it early for Munro, knowing that a mere seven years later, she would win the …
We asked our Schiff Award winners in prose and poetry to shoot us a few words on the pieces that garnered both praise (from our editor judges) and prizes (from our treasure palace). Here’s what they had to say. Karrie Higgins: “The Bottle City of God” started as a spin-off piece from an essay I …
Recent volunteer and PhD-poet extraordinaire Julia Koets joins us by way of San Francisco and Summerville, South Carolina. When asked about how the Midwest stacks up against northern California and the Deep South, Julia graciously restrains her contempt for goetta, her bemusement about the Ohio General Assembly, and her utter indifference toward the Bearcats this …
Hear ye, hear ye! (Because we stopped the government to create the appropriate drama for the following announcement.) The winners of 2013’s Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are (musical flourish, swirly-yet-sweeping arm gesture): Karrie Higgins for “The Bottle City of God” (Prose) and Martha Silano for “The World” (Poetry) Of course, we received many wonderfully …
We at the mag are delighted that so many pieces from our pages have been recognized as NOTABLE by the Besties: Best American Short Stories: Steve De Jarnatt, “Mulligan”; Colleen Morrissey, “Good Faith”; and Edith Pearlman, “Life Lessons” Best American Essays: Tracy Burkholder, “Proof” Best American Nonrequired Reading: Steve Amick, “Not Even Lions and Tigers” …
You have a body. You are a body. And yet your body is not ALL you are. Yep, the mind/body problem is scary stuff. It has puzzled philosophers for centuries and driven countless philosophy undergrads to change their majors to business. But our contributors are not afraid of corporeality, or if they are, they use …
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