What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Brian Trapp: I’m in my reading year, which means I have to trudge through Proust and Joyce and other Very Important Authors. But I also get to read lesser known authors who would be just as Very Important if there were any justice in this cold, black universe. Tom Drury is one of these. My …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Matt McBride: Lately I’ve been reading Terrance Hayes’s newest collection, Lighthead (Penguin, 2010). Hayes, who is the current Elliston Poet-in-Residence here at UC, is one the few poets who can use form—both conventional forms such as acrostics and found forms like Pecha Kucha (a sped-up Japanese version of Power Point)—to make poems stranger as opposed …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Lisa Ampleman: It’s hard to describe The Riots (University of Georgia Press, 2011), by Danielle Deulen (a new professor at UC this year), in terms that haven’t already been used. I want to say that the essays are beautifully lyrical, but the Great Lakes Colleges Association emphasized that quality when they awarded the collection the …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

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 …

What We’re Reading

by Nicola Mason Suddenly, I am a beekeeper. This is entirely due to the poet Liz Tilton, who some time back completed a brilliant stint as CR’s associate editor. She was an amazing officemate back then (We laughed; we cried; we swapped beet recipes), and she continues to amaze me, only at a slightly greater …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Fiction Editor Michael Griffith: What I’m reading now? I realize I’m late to the party—Elmore Leonard calls it “the best crime novel ever written” and says it “makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew,” and my fortieth-anniversary edition features an introduction by Dennis Lehane, who tabs it “the game-changing crime novel of the last …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

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 …

What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Welcome to the CR blog’s new series, What We’re Reading. Since our staff is composed of such wonderfully erudite—yes, we said erudite—individuals, we decided to create a feature where members of our small yet mighty work force jot a few lines about what they they’re currently reading as a kind of “employees’ picks” of the …

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