miCRo: “Remission” by Sara Dudo
An incantatory poem with rich images from the natural world and a deft hand with syntactical ambiguity.
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Full Feature: Craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing
Cincinnati Review | June 23, 2023
We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 20.1 with craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing in various genres, including (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)
Breaking the Fourth Wall and Intimacy in Fleabag, by Jay Franklin
Cincinnati Review | June 23, 2023
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Jay Franklin’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) Fleabag. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator. First aired in the …
The Paradise of Danez Smith’s “summer, somewhere,” by Philip Metres
Cincinnati Review | June 23, 2023
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Philip Metres’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) (To use the PDF embedder to see additional …
“Then My Eyes Got Hungry”: On Diane Seuss’s “Memory Fed Me until It Didn’t,” by Emilia Phillips
Cincinnati Review | June 23, 2023
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Emilia Phillips’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) (To use the PDF embedder to see additional …
On Place and The Unpassing, by Rachael Uwada Clifford
Cincinnati Review | June 23, 2023
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Rachael Uwada Clifford’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) The Unpassing. Chia-Chia Lin. Farrar, Straus and …
Pilgrim amid Spectres: A Craft Review of The Collected Schizophrenias, by Shannon Fandler
Cincinnati Review | June 22, 2023
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Shannon Fandler’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) The Collected Schizophrenias. Esmé Weijun Wang. Graywolf, 2019. …
Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking through the Competence Ceiling by Holly Goddard Jones
Cincinnati Review | June 22, 2023
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” which we printed in excerpted form in the issue (available with the entire feature here) but provide here in full: I teach in an MFA …
Joylyn Chai on Gardening and the Toronto Land Acknowledgment
Cincinnati Review | June 22, 2023 | From our Contributors
Essayist Joylyn Chai explores how her relationship with gardening changed her relationship with the Toronto Land Acknowledgment.
excerpt from “Not Wanted in the Garden” by Joylyn Chai
Cincinnati Review | June 21, 2023
When my father could no longer live independently in the home where I was raised, my brother and I cleared the place out and sold it. My brother claimed a bounty of bric-a-brac from the house, including two sets of dinnerware, a snowblower, and my mother’s wedding dress. Over and over again, he and his …