Our policy is that we don’t eat, drink, or sleep until we finish proofreading the forthcoming issue. However, when Assistant Editor Matt McBride learned of the following, recent change to The Chicago Manual of Style he stiffened, stopped blinking in response to stimuli, and developed an impressive head of mouth-foam: “In a return to the …
We’re still proofreading our forthcoming issue. Our blue pencils are worn to nubs. We’re pinching them between pennies to make our marks. Our last geeky proofreading factoid caused a riot on the quad of our campus, with pro-hyphenation factions dance-fighting anti-hyphenation factions, so we thought we’d fuel the revolution by pointing out another change to …
We’re busy proofreading our next issue (8.1), and we can hardly wait until it’s ready—keep an eye out for it in May. Click on “issues” in the pull-down menu above to see the cover and a list of contributors. Here’s a geeky proofreading factoid: Did you know that the Chicago Manual of Style changed the …
The Cincinnati Review is pleased to announce that Chris Bachelder, author of Bear vs. Shark (Scribner, 2002), U.S.! (Bloomsbury, 2006), and Abbott Awaits (Yellow Shoe Fiction, 2011) will be joining the University of Cincinnati’s faculty next year. Chris has been a regular contributor to CR, with stories in issues 3.1 and 6.1. Welcome, Chris!
This week’s “Why We Like It” feature is a double whammy. It’s written by Becky Adnot, a long-time volunteer who is soon to join our staff (fall 2011); so this is also a “Why We Like Her” feature. For one thing, Becky has read submissions going on three years now—purely for the love of it. …
This just in from our esteemed poetry editor and migrant worker (weirdly, that is how Ireland views Don while he’s on fellowship in Belfast). Don Bogen: A word about money. There are seven kinds of banknotes accepted as legal tender here in Northern Ireland: those from the Bank of England, which (no surprise) have the …
For this month’s game, we’re going to test the fiction wonks among you. Correctly match the CR contributors below to the excerpts that follow—and choose your prize (slingpack, thermos, or issue of your choice). May the best wonk win! 1. Steve Almond 2. Aimee Bender 3. Judy Budnitz 4. George Singleton 5. Kevin Wilson a. Our mothers saw that …
Heather Hamilton: I’m currently rereading Paula Bohince’s Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, a poetry collection that doubles as a murder mystery, though to file it under any one term would be reductive. In fact, Incident is a complex and breathtaking book, pulling double duty on multiple fronts: at once rooted in a specific terror and speaking …
While we always receive a lot of varied, high-quality work here at CR, we do, on occasion, notice trends in our submissions. Here are two of the latest. Elaborate presentation: Recently we’ve received a number of spiral-bound submissions. We’ve received submissions on watermarked, stationery-grade stock, on parchment, and on glossy paper with accompanying photographs. We’ve also received quite a few in …
On a particularly frigid Wednesday of last month, volunteer Brandon Whiting appeared for his office hours in nothing but an elaborate feather jumpsuit. This was not unusual in itself—feather suits are actually required office wear—so we didn’t think much of it. And when he began touting the benefits of an “all-marsh” diet, we figured he …
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