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Jennifer Acker, founder and editor in chief of the Common, answers questions about the journal’s mission, slush piles, and her editorial process in this virtual event with Becky Tuch for the Lit Mag News Roundup. An interview with Acker about the Common’s fifteenth anniversary is featured in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this virtual reading for the Common’s 2021 Festival of Debut Authors, Cleo Qian reads from her short story “Monitor World,” which appears in her debut story collection, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go (Tin House, 2023). Qian is featured in Literary MagNet in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“When Henry started this walk at age thirty-two in 1849, he wore a broad-brimmed hat designed with a miniature shelf to hold the flowers he found,” reads Ben Shattuck from his essay “Three Walks,” first published in the Common and included in his book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (Tin House, April 2022). For more on the book, read “The Written Image: Ben Shattuck” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
