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Good Morning! Need a book recommendation with your coffee? Editorial Assistant Mila Massaki Gomes recommends “A Pale View of Hills” by Kazuo Ishiguro ⛰️

Find out how a film project and a residency in Morocco led to a sneaky short story for @a.j.bermudez, and how that story found its way to Issue 30! Full interview at link in bio or wherever you get podcasts (search “The Common magazine). #writers #writing #writingpodcast

In this recent interview, Nigerian writer David Emeka speaks with novelist Chukwuebuka Ibeh about what it means to think through fiction, why he can’t write a typical short story, and the literary genealogies he traces obsessively. Tap the link in our bio to read their wonderful conversation!

As Aimee Liu's father was dying, he asked her to find a box that he said was worth $2 million.

Liu says: "What I want—what I choose—to believe is that, by launching me on this hunt, Dad at long last was inviting me in. For the treasure I’m seeking is not money but the black box of my father’s true self."

Read Liu's full piece at the link in bio.

Read more from John T. Howard’s dispatch from New Harbor, Maine, “The Constancy of Ocean Sounds,” available online and at the link in bio!

Jay Boss Rubin dives into “Exemplary Humans” by Juliana Leite and translated by Zoë Perry in this recently published review. Read the full piece online at the link in bio!

“The Receivers” and “The Double,” two new poems from the wonderful Erica Ehrenberg, make up an atmospheric dispatch about the lives of children in New York City.

“The Receivers” and “The Double,” two new poems from the wonderful Erica Ehrenberg, make up an atmospheric dispatch about the lives of children in New York City.

For April, our contributors Juliet McShannon, Ro Skelton, and Terese Svoboda reviewed books that center personal and political hardships.

They carefully considered the responsibility and care of writing about real people, the act of research in representation, and how writing can function as an agent of change. Find their reviews at the link in bio!

Set in a Michigan gym, Andrew Steiner’s dark and mezmerizing story”Working In” appears in Issue 31 of The Common. Read it and the rest of Issue 31 at the link in our bio.

Daniel Tobin’s “The Grave Fox” is one of many beautiful poems in Issue 31 of The Common! Read the entire issue online with the link in bio.

A loving reflection on the stories passed down by her mother, Natalie Linh Bolderston’s Issue 31 essay, “A Story is an Offering: Notes on Storytelling and Inherited Memory,” is not to be missed. Read the piece in Issue 31, available to read and order at the link in bio.

New Intern video alert!The Common’s Editorial Assistant, Ben Tamburri, recommends John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row.” 🐟