by Nicola Mason Suddenly, I am a beekeeper. This is entirely due to the poet Liz Tilton, who some time back completed a brilliant stint as CR’s associate editor. She was an amazing officemate back then (We laughed; we cried; we swapped beet recipes), and she continues to amaze me, only at a slightly greater …
It’s here! It’s here! The new issue has arrived, and because this puts us in a jubilant mood, we’re going to offer fabulous awards and prizes to FIVE of our readers. But, um, first you have to earn them. In short, the first five people to find a genuine, bona fide typo in volume 7, …
by Nicola Mason I started out in journal work twenty years ago—as a grad assistant at Southern Review—so needless to say I’ve seen a lot of cover letters. When I’m asked about them, my line is, “A cover letter can’t help you.” People react as though I’ve said something ominous (I sort of enjoy this), …
We’re sad to learn that the Best American Fantasy series has been discontinued. The BAF editors curated three excellent, provocative anthologies that challenged genre boundaries and championed a wide array of weird, unsettling stories. We were looking forward to reading more—and we’re proud that four stories from our last two issues, not to mention a …
Congratulations to Brendan Mathews, whose story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer” (Summer 2009 issue) will appear in Best American Short Stories. as well as Marianne Boruch and Martha Silano, whose poems “The Doctor” and “Love” (Winter 2007 and Summer 2008 issues) have been selected for Best American …
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