One of CR’s contributors, Jamie Quatro, was interviewed by a Chattanooga radio station about her forthcoming book from Grove/Atlantic. To listen, click HERE. Jamie’s excellent story “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement” (included in the collection) appeared in CR volume 6, number 2.
While recording commentary for his acclaimed Battlestar Galactica remake, creator Ronald D. Moore would treat himself to a tumbler of fine Scotch, and he would begin each episode’s podcast by telling you what that particular Scotch was. The Balvenie. Ardbeg. Highland Park. Lagavulin. Yes, life was good for Ronald D. Moore. As The Cincinnati Review …
We’re trying something new and different—a collaboration with the amazing online magazine Soapbox. Soapbox tells the new Cincinnati story—a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. And each month, Cincinnati Review will contribute some of the best lit—poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—in the country. The …
The force of the thunderclap that woke us this morning at 3 a.m. heralded good news: two more of our contributors have been chosen for two great anthologies! Don Russ’s poem “Girl with Gerbil” (from Issue 8.1) has been chosen for the Best American Poetry 2012. He joins other contributors Julianna Baggott, James Kimbrell, and …
We are exceptionally thrilled to congratulate three of our contributors whose poems (all from Issue 7.2) were chosen by Mark Doty for the Best American Poetry 2012! Julianna Baggott, “For Furious Nursing Baby” James Kimbrell, “How to Tie a Knot” Dean Rader, “Self-Portrait as Dido to Aeneas” Greatest congratulations to them! Below, we’ve posted some …
Any day now, we’re going to receive a number of large, ridiculously heavy boxes full of Issue 8.2. As we wait, we’re doing core-strengthening exercises and reminding ourselves to lift with our legs. Managing editor Nicola Mason leads us in calisthenics to start each day, periodically shouting: “Knees higher! Come on, people, an ampersand has …
You know how Joyce said that if Dublin burned to rubble, you could use Ulysses to rebuild it? Well, after Tuesday’s fine intro, we (some of us, anyway) have decided to make this blog, in part, the Ulysses of Joe Dargue. (But don’t burn to rubble, Joe!) Ten more facts about him: 1. Like most …
We’re in the home stretch for production of Issue 8.2, due out in January, and our excitement is growing. We’ve got a cooler full of Gatorade to shower Managing Editor Nicola Mason with (shh, it’s a secret), some end-zone-style silly celebration dances, and a trophy made out of toilet-paper rolls and licorice. In order to …
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 …
And now, what you’ve been waiting for: Statements from judges Don Bogen and Michael Griffith about the winners of the 2011 Schiff Prize in Prose and Poetry, as well as words from the winners themselves, Tresha Haefner and Elisabeth Cohen, on how their pieces came to be. Don Bogen: What impresses me most about “A …
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