Convenience Store Woman. Sayaka Murata. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Grove, 2018. 176 pp. $20.00 (cloth). Convenience Store Woman is a short volume that fits in hand, purse, or satchel and can be sneaked out and read in little bursts, as quick as popping a Tic Tac. I have read it three or four times, …
One: Oscar Peterson’s Piano Is Out of Tune And he’s strolling—back and forth, back and forth—in front of a bank of impressive windows that look out from his penthouse in the Amedeo Court Apartments. He is alone. But if you were there, Bess, you could lean an elbow on the empty bar and watch him …
After the tremendous buzz caused by the presence of Nick Lachey at last year’s CR booth, the Imagineers at The Cincinnati Review have been busy thinking up new ways to surprise and delight you at AWP Baltimore. To that end, we have some exciting events, attractions, and new swag planned: An Evening of Flash Lit: …
22.1 contributor Zoe Ballering discusses life spans and storytelling.
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22.1 contributor Malcolm Friend shares a playlist to fill your earbuds on those lonely trips to the grocery store.
On the occasion of a Giant Eagle employee double-checking to make sureI rang the right item up at self-checkout Truth: Plátanos are the only produce item I know the PLU code for (4235). Lie: It’s my Caribbean pride. Truth: I just got tired of looking up plantain bananas every time I used self-checkout. Truth: I …
Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner Erika Gallion Velasquez shares a playlist to accompany her prize-winning essay.
Jaye Kranz shares this haunting excerpt of her poem, that takes us on journeys through email exchanges and ASCII landscapes that feel both déjà vu-like and oddly tranquil.
We recently reached a milestone: I handed our web design prototypes over to our developer.