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Full Feature: Craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 23, 2023 | Samples | 0

Full Feature: Craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing

We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 20.1 with craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing in various genres, including

  • Holly Goddard Jones on Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s story collection, Friday Black
  • Shannon Fandler on Esmé Weijun Wang’s essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias
  • Rachael Uwada Clifford on Chia-Chia Lin’s novel, The Unpassing
  • Emilia Phillips on Diane Seuss’s poem “Memory Fed Me until It Didn’t”
  • Philip Metres on Danez Smith’s poem “summer, somewhere”
  • Jay Franklin on the television series Fleabag

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