News and Events

“Periodical Wisdom: Advising Student-Run Lit Mags”

Event Date: 
Thursday, March 1, 2012 – 3:00pm4:15pm
Location: 
Lake Michigan, Hilton Chicago, 8th floor

Jen Acker–along with Jay Baron Nicorvo and Don Lee–will take part in this panel discussion at the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Literary Publishers Conference at Association of Writers and Poets, Lake Michigan, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor. The Common will also exhibit our wares at AWP’s Bookfair, Space M22.

“Periodical Wisdom: Advising Student-Run Lit Mags”
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Bennington Roadshow in Brooklyn

Event Date: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – 7:30pm9:30pm
Location: 
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

Issue 02 contributor Phillip Lopate and nine grads of Bennington College’s MFA program in Creative Writing (including Dispatches contributor Julia Lichtblau and editor Jennifer Acker) will read at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, an exhibition/performance space in Cobble Hill, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 7:30-9:30 pm. Wine and book sales will follow. The event is one of an evolving roadshow of readings by established and emerging writers from the Bennington program.

“Commons” at Bennington College

Bennington Roadshow in Brooklyn
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Discovering Houghton: Views of Newton’s Secret Garden

Event Date: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 – 7:00pm8:30pm
Location: 
Newton Free Library, Newton Center, MA

An event at Newton Free Library, in Newton Center, MA, at Houghton Garden, the subject of contributions to Issue 02 from Daniel Jackson and Sarah Luria. 

Discovering Houghton: Views of Newton’s Secret Garden
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Issue 02 Launch Party

Event Date: 
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 7:00pm10:00pm
Location: 
Brookline Booksmith

Join us at Brookline Booksmith for readings by three contributors — Daniel Tobin, Katia Kapovich, and Philip Nikolayev — conversations about the works, and a party to celebrate the release of Issue 02.

Issue 02 Launch Party
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“Talent Scouts or Red Pencils?”

Event Date: 
Thursday, October 20, 2011 – 7:00pm
Location: 
Frost Library, Periodicals Section, Amherst College

A panel discussion in Amherst College’s Frost Library with editors for The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, and Vanity Fair, moderated by Jen Acker. The event takes place as part of Amherst College’s series, “The Future of the Humanities in the Age of Technics.”

“Talent Scouts or Red Pencils?”
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Lit Mag Fair at Newtonville Books

Event Date: 
Saturday, October 1, 2011 – 2:00pm
Location: 
296 Walnut Street, Newton, MA

A celebration of local literary magazines, including Agni, Ploughshares, Post Road, Redivider, The Common, and The Harvard Review. Katia Kapovich, author of the short story “The Smuggler” to appear in our upcoming Issue 02, will be reading!

 

Lit Mag Fair at Newtonville Books
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Brooklyn Reading

Event Date: 
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 – 7:00pm
Location: 
Rocky Sullivan’s

We’re hosting a reading on August 17th at Rocky Sullivan’s (Brooklyn, NY).  Come and enjoy an evening featuring readings by Brook Willensky-Lanford, Maura Candela, and Maria Terrone.  The event starts at 7 PM and is free and open to the public.

Brooklyn Reading
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Greenfield Reading and Event

Event Date: 
Saturday, July 30, 2011 – 2:00am

Join The Common at the Greenfield Arts Collective at Greenfield Energy Park in Greenfield, MA, between 2 and 9 PM on July 30th.  Enjoy a live band, watch one-act plays, and listen to readings from a number of authors, including our contributor Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller!

Greenfield Reading and Event
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