The Common Magazine Podcast
1) Sarah Smarsh, "Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class" ï»ż(Scribner, 2024)
National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her career writing memoir, essays, and journalism centered on the experience of the rural working class in the U...Show More
2) Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, "Raffia Memory," The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
Lily Lloyd Burkhalter speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay âRaffia Memory,â which appears in The Commonâs spring issue. Lily talks about traveling to the Cameroon Grassfields to res...Show More
3) Mariah Rigg, "Target Island," The Common (Spring, 2025)
Mariah Rigg speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story âTarget Island,â which appears in The Commonâs spring issue. âTarget Islandâ is a story from her short story collection Extinction C...Show More
4) Pria Anand "The Elephant's Child" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
Pria Anand speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story âThe Elephantâs Child,â which appears in The Commonâs spring issue. The piece is a vivid retelling of a Hindu myth, the origin story ...Show More
5) Lucas Schaefer, "Tuesday" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
Lucas Schaefer speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story âTuesday,â which appears in The Commonâs brand new spring issue. âTuesdayâ is an excerpt from his novel The Slip, out June 3 from...Show More
6) Michael David Lukas, "More to the Story," The Common Magazine (Fall, 2025)
Michael David Lukas speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his essay âMore to the Story,â which appears in The Commonâs fall issue. Michael talks about his writing process for the essay, which ...Show More
7) Gray Davidson Carroll, "Silent Spring," The Common magazine
Poet Gray Davidson Carroll speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about their poem âSilent Spring,â which appears in The Commonâs fall issue. Gray talks about poetry as a way to witness and observe t...Show More
8) Julia Sanches, "The Advice," The Common magazine
Translator Julia Sanches speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about translating âThe Advice,â a story by Irene Pujadas, which appears in The Commonâs fall issue in a portfolio of writing by contemp...Show More
9) Megan Tennant, "Little Women," The Common magazine
Megan Tennant speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story âLittle Women,â which appears in The Commonâs brand new fall issue. Megan talks about the process of writing and revising this sto...Show More
10) Kevin Dean, "Patron Saints" The Common Magazine
Kevin Dean speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story âPatron Saints,â which appears in The Commonâs most recent issue. Kevin talks about the process of writing and revising this story, w...Show More