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Darn Those Trojan Horses
Our online submissions manager is temporarily down as of Friday, November 18, but we hope to have it up and running shortly. We’ve been informed that the website has been infected with a trojan horse, so please refrain from attempting to log in until we eliminate the threat of infection. We apologize for the inconvenience. …
More Irrelevant Questions for Relevant Writers
CR staff member Don Peteroy is a curious guy. “Where are the fire extinguishers?” he asked us when he first came to a staff meeting. When he stopped by the office a few days ago, he wanted to know what we would do if we were walking down the sidewalk and someone threw a baked …
Game of the Month Results
We’re hard at work proofreading the new issue (due out in January!), but in between bursts of intense, disturb-me-not concentration, we’ve been enjoying the captions you all have proposed for the photo posted in our Game of the Month. Laxatives, kegel exercises, mannequins: what more could we have asked for? We can determine whether “which” or “that” is …
Caption Contest
We hear there’s another magazine out there, one that also publishes fiction and poetry, which apparently stole our idea from about a year ago of having images without captions and then having a contest wherein people then submit comical caption possibilities. We take solace though, since it’s some no-name, obscure magazine. We think it’s called The New …
“Where Your God Ends and My God Begins”: Why We Like It
Volunteer Chris Koslowski is secretly really good at flag football. We’ve seen him play, and let us tell you: He runs the best hitch-and-go we’ve ever seen, and dude can catch, too—he has hands like Spiderman, only stickier. Rumor has it, in fact, that Chris turned down the chance to be Mark Wahlberg’s body double …
What We’re Reading
Becky Adnot-Haynes: As a third-year doctoral student here at UC, I’m currently studying for exams, which means that my days are divided evenly between my work as an assistant editor at CR and reading lots and lots and lots of books. And then reading some more books. One of the books I’m enjoying right now …
A Bit of Publishing History
Nicola Mason: I recently received word from one of our contributors, Jamie Quatro, that her story collection has been taken for publication by Grove/Atlantic. (CR was lucky enough to present the title story, “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement,” to our readership in issue 6.2.) When I read this excellent news, I was put in …
“Our Libretto Conundrum”: Why We Like It
CR volunteer Ryan Connair is a taciturn individual. Here at the CR office we know Ryan mostly through the incisive comments he leaves on the manuscripts he’s read and the industrious yet stoic way he plows though the menial work we assign him. We have personally witnessed the man apply over six hundred mailing labels …
Biased Hyphens, Pied-Piping, and Meta-Quotation: A Tribute to the Chicago Manual
Lisa Ampleman: Here at the CR, we swear allegiance to the Chicago Manual of Style; here’s photographic proof of the day that the 16th edition arrived and we vowed to employ the Oxford comma and spell out all whole numbers under one hundred. As a new assistant editor, I’ve spent the past six weeks memorizing every …