We at the mag are delighted that so many pieces from our pages have been recognized as NOTABLE by the Besties: Best American Short Stories: Steve De Jarnatt, “Mulligan”; Colleen Morrissey, “Good Faith”; and Edith Pearlman, “Life Lessons” Best American Essays: Tracy Burkholder, “Proof” Best American Nonrequired Reading: Steve Amick, “Not Even Lions and Tigers” …
You have a body. You are a body. And yet your body is not ALL you are. Yep, the mind/body problem is scary stuff. It has puzzled philosophers for centuries and driven countless philosophy undergrads to change their majors to business. But our contributors are not afraid of corporeality, or if they are, they use …
All last week we “collated,” which means we gathered round the institutional faux-wood table that dominates our wee office and compared piles upon piles of proofread galleys for our November issue. It’s kind of like that scene in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie where the everlasting gobstoppers are unveiled. (Editor’s Note: …
New volunteer Dario Sulzman has had many previous lives. We don’t mean that in the flighty New Age sense, though if we brought in the right mystic, perhaps we’d learn that Dario was a WWII pilot who pressed “eject” instead of “bomb” by accident, or a seventeenth-century Russian seamstress who died of infection after she …
We got some nice notice in a New Pages review of our summer issue. Look for some fun additions to our usual lineup this 10th anniversary year! Review by Justin Brouckaert Now ten years old, The Cincinnati Review has established a reputation as one of the top literary journals in the Midwest. This issue, which includes …
We’ll soon be featured in the Standout Markets column of Writer’s Digest magazine. Here’s a sneak peak at a few of the interview questions as well as the answers that genre eds Don Bogen and Michael Griffith collaborated on. What makes a submission to The Cincinnati Review stand out? A combination of boldness and craft, a …
There’s something odd about the chair that Associate Editor Lisa Ampleman vacated when she graduated this past spring. The spot is now occupied by Brian Brodeur, but sometimes his visage seems to fluctuate, his beard disappears, and he speaks in Lisa’s voice when he says, “I’m headed to Starbucks for a green tea latte,” or …
Some of you may know of—and may even have attended—our Greetings Readings. These are events in which rogue poetry editor Don Bogen corrals group of our contributors in a rugged, faraway landscape (for example, Boston) for a night of incandescent verse, often followed by a hard-fought game of Twister. (Don is really, really limber.) One …
Every now and again, we are moved to laud the exceptional, behind-the-scenes efforts of our pool of trusted readers, who are weekly (yea, even through the “catch up” months of summer) poring over poems and stories and essays, etc., and rendering thoughtful judgments on their strengths and weaknesses. They are busy people with hectic lives, …
From Julianna Baggott‘s essay “My Mother in Her Mail-Order Scott Paper Company Dress: A Portrait of Intergenerational Neuroses” (10.1), we learned . . . well, first of all, that paper dresses exist. Or rather that they existed, er, before all those women caught on fire. Perhaps more to the point, we learned how this sartorial …
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