ArabLit chats with editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker and contributor Hisham Bustani on Arabic Literature and his translated piece in Issue 06.
ArabLit (2013)
April 3, 2013
News and Events
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Amherst Magazine (2013)
April 3, 2013
News and Events
Amherst Magazine highlights editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker’s year in Abu Dhabi and The Common‘s foray into Middle Eastern and Arabic literature.
The PEN American Center (2013)
April 3, 2013
News and Events
The PEN American Center features The Common‘s interview with Shawn Vestal, author of Godforsaken Idaho, on their Recommended Reading List. Vestal has won the 2014 Shortlist PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
The Best American Short Stories 2013
April 3, 2013
News and Events
The Best American Short Stories 2013, ed. Elizabeth Strout, named Jennifer Haigh’s “A Place in the Sun,” from The Common Issue 04, as a Distinguished Story of 2012.
Ammoun (2013)
April 3, 2013
News and Events
Ammoun, the top news website in Jordan, features The Common‘s collaboration with Hisham Bustani.
Connecting Point (2011)
June 3, 2011
News and Events
WGBY’s Connecting Point interviews editor Jennifer Acker about the genesis ofThe Common.
The New Yorker (2011)
April 3, 2011
News and Events
The New Yorker cites The Common as a new journal that has found its way.
Amherst Magazine (2011)
April 3, 2011
News and Events
Amherst Magazine features The Common in the Spring 2011 issue: Print Makes a Stand.
Richard Wilbur’s 90th Birthday Party
March 14, 2011
News, News and Events
Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winner, former Poet Laureate, and Editorial Board member for The Common, celebrated his 90th birthday on March 1. Here are photos from his birthday celebration at Amherst College.
First Ink
February 15, 2011
News, News and Events
The Common is heralded in today’s Inside Higher Ed.
“The last few years had many literary journal editors’ backs against the wall. Numerous journals teetered between shuttering and downsizing.
