In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 08 contributors Terese Svoboda and Ralph Sneeden read and discuss their pieces “Dutch Joe” and “Stepping Off.”
RO SKELTON
Ro Skelton speaks to Emily Everett about her essay “Naow’s Boutique,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. The essay explores Ro’s time living and working in Dakar, where she formed a friendship in her neighborhood that eventually led to a sense of community, and then a community garden, and then a lifelong friendship.
A. J. BERMUDEZ
A. J. Bermudez speaks to Emily Everett about her story “The Sixteenth Brother,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue.
RO SKELTON
And this is how Mother Mary feels—like entering a deep friendship with a writer who shares, over the course of the story of her life, what it was like for her to be somewhat lost and searching, making meaning in her life in the shadow of her loving and often abusive mother.
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