Issue 8.2 Coming Soon!
Issue 8.2 is almost here! Until then, you can print our cover image, from a painting by Antonio Carreno, to make an imitation issue to tide you over for the next couple weeks.
Cincinnati Review
Bonus Material: Grumbling, Kalscheur, Wagner
You know how Joyce said that if Dublin burned to rubble, you could use Ulysses to rebuild it? Well, after Tuesday’s fine intro, we (some of us, anyway) have decided to make this blog, in part, the Ulysses of Joe Dargue. (But don’t burn to rubble, Joe!) Ten more facts about him: 1. Like most …
“Reciprocity”: Why We Like It
In the CR office, we get to know our volunteers pretty well. There are the weekly meetings, of course, and also we require every volunteer to put in office hours. This is largely so there’s someone for Matt M. to wrestle; someone who’ll salivate when Lisa heats up her leftovers from home; someone to act blinded …
Accolades
The past few weeks have brought some good news for those connected to Cincinnati Review: Trophy, by Michael Griffith, our fiction editor, was named to the Best Fiction of 2011 list by Kirkus Reviews. The original (starred!) review said, “Griffith’s word wizardy, his facile puns, his insight into the human heart and his topsy-turvy sardonic …
The _________ Is……..
Our Game of the Month was a popular one. A lot of you enjoy the grammar-based creativity of Mad Libs, and we were _____________ on the floor of the office as we read the entries. Snopes.com, Pomeranians, yodeling? All awesome. (Even better when we think about the Snopes.com debunking of the yodeling Pomeranian chain email.) …
Adaptation Speculation
With the news that HBO will be producing movies based on Faulkner novels, we wonder if poetry will ever be adapted in the same way. PBS recently aired an adapted poem, The Song of Lunch, as part of its Masterpiece Contemporary series. The film is appropriately PBS-style, with British accents (Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson …
Game of the Month: Literary Mad Libs!
Remember when, riding in the back of your parents’ old Dodge van, which spewed black noxious smoke and had way too many miles on it and was by all measures totally and completely uncool, you and your older sister used to crouch in the backseat to avoid being spotted by your junior-high classmates? And remember …
We’re on Twitter!
Sound the hand trumpets and drum your pencils: We are now tweeting! Follow us @CincinnReview for updates on the magazine, AWP news, contest announcements, and plenty of other exciting stuff, like reports about what we had for lunch, notes on how rockin’ our morning cardio sessions were, and commentary on how totally psyched/pissed we are …
The Anticipation Builds: Contributor Comments
We’re in the home stretch for production of Issue 8.2, due out in January, and our excitement is growing. We’ve got a cooler full of Gatorade to shower Managing Editor Nicola Mason with (shh, it’s a secret), some end-zone-style silly celebration dances, and a trophy made out of toilet-paper rolls and licorice. In order to …