Congrats to fiction faculty member Beth Lordan whose story "A Useful
Story" (which first appeared in New England Review, volume 31, number
1) has been cited as a "Distinguished Story of 2010" in Best American
Short Stories 2011!
This blog is the temporary home of Crab Orchard Review, the literary journal of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. On this blog, we will be sharing book reviews, links to past issues of the journal, musings from past and current editors, and whatever else we find of interest to the literary community!