Becky Adnot-Haynes: As a third-year doctoral student here at UC, I’m currently studying for exams, which means that my days are divided evenly between my work as an assistant editor at CR and reading lots and lots and lots of books. And then reading some more books. One of the books I’m enjoying right now …
Nicola Mason: I recently received word from one of our contributors, Jamie Quatro, that her story collection has been taken for publication by Grove/Atlantic. (CR was lucky enough to present the title story, “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement,” to our readership in issue 6.2.) When I read this excellent news, I was put in …
CR volunteer Ryan Connair is a taciturn individual. Here at the CR office we know Ryan mostly through the incisive comments he leaves on the manuscripts he’s read and the industrious yet stoic way he plows though the menial work we assign him. We have personally witnessed the man apply over six hundred mailing labels …
Lisa Ampleman: Here at the CR, we swear allegiance to the Chicago Manual of Style; here’s photographic proof of the day that the 16th edition arrived and we vowed to employ the Oxford comma and spell out all whole numbers under one hundred. As a new assistant editor, I’ve spent the past six weeks memorizing every …
By now followers of our blog have been privy to posts by our new sunny-on-the-surface-yet-with-dark-hidden-depths staffers Becky Adnot-Haynes and Lisa Ampleman (by day, they read submissions; by night, they prowl the city, scrawling HYPERCORRECTION MUST DIE in scarlet lipstick on the windows of citizenry who have been heard to say, in the course of a …
Though the work we receive here at CR is always widely varied, we do notice, on rare occasions, certain trends among the submissions. Here are some of our latest. A Pre-Story Death: Sometimes a death that occurs before the narrative begins—especially when it’s the loss of a loved one—creates a poignant sense of present absence, …
Now for our third and tasty installment of “Irrelevant Questions for Relevant Writers,” in which Don Peteroy, Cincinnati Review staff member-extraordinaire, conducts one-question interviews with writers in an attempt to discover what makes them tick—or, rather, what they think about ticks: Alex M. Pruteanu is the author of the recently-released novella Short Lean Cuts …
Here at CR, we’re looking forward to the howling winds and dead-tree vistas of January. Okay, not really, but we ARE anticipating the new issue, which will hit the frozen or semifrozen (depending on the latitude) North American newsstands then. Either you can pull on your long underwear, lace up your boots, and brave the …
Thanks to all the funny bunnies who participated in our Game of the Month. Since we at the mag—as a matter of principle—refuse to rain on a funny bunny’s parade, EVERYONE’S A WINNER! [Conjure mental scene involving confetti, streamers, those obnoxious party horns, a goofy guy who can’t dance, etc.] Please email editors [at] cincinnatireview …
A hearty congratulations to two of our contributors who have been named 2011 National Book Award finalists! Frequent contributor Edith Pearlman is recognized for her short-story collection Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (Lookout Books, 2011). Pearlman’s stories have appeared in Issues 2.2, 4.2, 6.1, and 7.1, and a new story, “Life Lessons” is forthcoming …
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