In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 09 contributors Masha Hamilton and Lori Ostlund read and discuss their stories “God’s Fingernail” and “Leaving Walter.”
ROBIN LEE CARLSON
Robin Lee Carlson speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Reading the Ashes,” which appears in The Common’s fall 2022 issue.
SINDYA BHANOO
Food makes its way into many of my stories. I don’t do it consciously. But I am always trying to catch my characters during moments when they’re letting their guard down...and that often happens during mealtimes.
MEERA NAIR
I'm a little obsessed with trees. I've always had a weird kind of attachment to them. I grew up with them all around me, because I used to go home to Kerala, where my family is from in India, and we have a big farm and a mango grove.
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