We like to find out from our writers what inspired their work. We expect to hear the following: childhoods of neglect, too much book-learnin’, time spent working on a communal farm in the Ukraine, or an overdose of beautiful vistas on their recent road trips. These contributors to Issue 9.1 have higher concerns: we noticed …
Welcome back, CR-ers. Get ready for the second part of our interview with UC’s Emerging Writers Ben Loory, Danielle Evans, Ron Currie Jr., and Caitlin Horrocks, as they discuss “The Writer as Reader,” moderated by Professor Jim Schiff. In this installment, you’ll find out how Ben Loory’s Brady Bunch/Virginia Woolf childhood affected his work and …
We just got our final proof from the printer, which means that Issue 9.2 will soon be trucking toward us (you can order the issue here). There’s a kind of grief in every transition; we mourn what’s passing as the new thing emerges, so we find ourselves decked out in black for the final few …
This month, UC’s English Department hosted its Emerging Writers Festival, bringing to campus four fiction writers who are emerging from their rough-spun cocoons into full-fledged writerly beings. (Okay, maybe all of them already have awards and critically acclaimed books.) During their time at UC, they took part in readings, discussions, and discussions about reading, and …
Here at the CR, we like our editorial assistants to have extra skills (in addition to perceptive reading acumen, superior letter-opening talents, and a song-and-dance routine), so we were thrilled when Michael C. Peterson joined the staff. As we’ve blogged about before, Michael has welding experience. When we learned that, we asked him to grab …
For our third collaborative feature with Cincinnati’s online magazine Soapbox, we’re featuring Brian Barker’s prose poem “Bats” from issue 9.1. Soapbox tells the new Cincinnati story—a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. And every other month, Cincinnati Review will contribute some of …
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith on choosing Carey Cameron’s “Thursday”: “Thursday” takes up—in subtle, touching, psychologically acute ways—a subject that seems to get relatively little attention in literary fiction: the slippages and frailties of late middle age, the tectonic grindings and intricate negotiations necessary to long marriage. It’s a sharp, smart story, tender but resolutely unsentimental. …
Last week we gave you a taste of the CR staff’s nonliterary talents (it turns out that in addition to being experts at polishing manuscripts for publication, we’ve got mad skillz in quite a few different areas). Today, the fun continues. To give you another deeper look into the CR family, we extracted (using gentle …
It’s here! The Best American Poetry 2012 has “dropped” and is in stores/amazon warehouses as you read this. Guest edited by the poet extraordinaire of Mark Doty, this issue features five, count em’, five CR poems. That is almost 7 percent of the whole anthology. And we didn’t even have to bribe. In its pages, …
Each new issue of The Cincinnati Review is like a baby to us. We nourish it, change it, tell funny anecdotes about it, and murmur gentle encouragements in its ear about the amazing lit mag issue it will someday become. And then, when the new arrival comes along, we crowd the older children into a …
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