We’re excited about all the great stuff in our spring issue (due out in May), including an excerpt from the first chapter of Steven Sherrill’s sequel to The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, an amazing novel that threw off sparks all over the world when Picador published it in 2000. CR associate ed. Don Peteroy …
Our art song feature for the spring issue is an extended score of Mary Kaiser’s poem “He Dreams a Mother” by composer David Clay Mettens. We will, of course, post a recording of the score when our spring issue comes out in May—but we’re excited to offer locals the opportunity for a live listening experience. …
Ryan Ruff Smith: Mavis Gallant is one of those realists who, upon close examination, is weirder than anyone. Excepting one ghost story, the material collected in Paris Stories, a retrospective assemblage put together by NYRB Classics in 2002, is strictly grounded in reality. For the most part, this is the reality of post-World War II Europe. …
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 …
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