Rochelle Hurt: There is something to be said for writing against or away from received traditions and natural proclivities. Often, the result is a kind of verve and vigor we may not otherwise access. Several contributors to CR 12.2 describe their process as that of writing against the grain, whether by challenging predecessors, staking out marginal …
Making final preparations for AWP. All you conference-goers: our table is 1141. Please stop by and take advantage of our SPECIAL OFFERS. Anyone who subscribes or renews will get to choose two of the wonderful woodblock relief prints created specifically for AWP by artist Billy Simms. Those who subscribe (or renew) for multiple years will …
We’re grateful for the robust response to our call for comics and other graphic art. We ended up selecting a fun image by Allen Forrest, which will appear in our May issue. We had only one page to fill this time out, but we hope to include more comics in future issues—so if you submitted …
We have an unusual situation here—one, in fact, that has never happened before. A poet withdrew her poem after we’d sent the May issue to the typesetter. (Bad form. Very, very, very, VERY bad form.) So now we have proofs. And there’s this poem that needs to be removed from them. Of course, we’d rather …
Apologies to those of you who have recently tried to subscribe or order individual issues via our website. Our merchant account was deactivated due to some suspicious transactions (read: fraud). We’ve been working to get the new merchant account up and running, but it’s been (unexpectedly) complicated. Don’t forget or give up on us! We’ll …
They have arrived! As of today, we’ll be proofreading like mad until the job is done. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover of 13.1 (assemblage titled SPEW by Ron Ulicny). The issue is due out in May!
Eric Van Hoose: Ghost stories tend to hinge on the question of the ghost’s existence. Either the figment is real or it isn’t, and story’s purpose is to find the answer. But from the first moments of Leslie Entsminger’s “The Brief Second Life of Winston Whithers’s Wife,” when the spirit of Winston’s dead wife—initially haunting his …
We’ve been working on something special for this year’s AWP conference and book fair in LA. At our request, printmaker and author of the award-winning The Clown Genocide: A Novel in Woodcuts Billy Simms has created a set of woodblock relief prints to offer new subscribers during the book fair. Modeled after pages in a child’s primer, each …
Antechamber – Joshua Coben* The father is a dark door the son may lean against to listen for the locked room of himself, his next life. Later he will listen there for the echo of his own death. Meanwhile he becomes a dark door for someone else. It takes him years to grow so broad …
Congrats to Steve Almond, whose “Now Do You Surrender?” (CR 11.2) has been accepted for inclusion in the 20th edition of Best American Mystery Stories. As series editor, Otto Penzler picked 50 exceptional mystery stories originally published in North America during the 2015 calendar year. From that short list, guest editor Elizabeth George selected the 20 …
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