The Common: Issue #7

by Jennifer Acker

Contents
"The Common Statement" by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
"Chanel" by Francesca Marciano
"A World of Wonder" by Elvis Bego
"Spindrift" by W. Ross Feeler
"from SANKYA" by Zakhar Prilepin (Translated by Mariya Gusev and Jeff Parker with Alina Ryabovolova)
"Con" by Stephen O'Connor
"The Last Word" by Ariel Dorfman

Images
"Plugs: Five Thoughts on Cady Noland's Stocks" by David Breslin with Lili Holzer-Glier

Essays
"Without" by Marisa Silver
"Bud" by Nalini Jones
"In Search of Božena Němcová" by Kelcey Parker

Poetry
"Your Parents' House" by Zeina Hashem Beck
"Toast" by Manohar Shetty
"Little Chapel" by Richie Hofmann
"The Harbor" by Richie Hofmann
"An Opera with No Libretto" by George Looney
"Folk Magic" by Valerie Duff
"Birds of Rhiannon" by Katherine Robinson
"Jesus and the Herd of Pigs" by Sarah Wells
"Jumping Roofs" by David Livewell
"Erasure" by David Livewell
"The Coondle Elegies" by John Kinsella
"They Had Had It In Mind" by Caroline Knox
"Dissolution (Or, Landscape with Martyr)" by Jaydn DeWald
"Fugue: Two Painters" by Jaydn DeWald
"Henri Province in Wessex" by Joseph Harrison
"The City" by Bruce Bond
"MR." by Nicholas Wong
"When I Was Straight" by Julie Marie Wade
"When an Old Classmate Learns I Am a Lesbian" by Julie Marie Wade
"In Praise of Prey" by Leslie McGrath
"Shook Music" by Leslie McGrath

216 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2014

About the author

Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and organizes LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband. The Limits of the World is her debut novel.