#jennifer acker

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: April 2026

Track Four is Not About You by L.M. Bennett (4th) Bishop left without a word. Shiloh never knew why. Four years later, neither of them has recovered. Now Bishop’s album is falling apart, and the only producer who understands her sound is the ex she ghosted. Shiloh doesn’t do chaos, second chances, or Bishop. But when she hears that dying demo, something cracks. Because the raw honesty on that…

New Releases: April 2026

[benningtonwritingseminars]

Picking out your AWP panels? Allow us to suggest one of the 20+ panels featuring our Faculty, alumni and students.

Stop by table #T5020 during the Book Fair and pick up a schedule of events featuring members of the Bennington community.

[courageequaltodesire]

The Limits of the World (Jennifer Acker)

[thecommonmag]

"Whenever I feel like I’m developing a path of least resistance I try to resist it, because that’s how you get better."

On the Friday of LitFest, Amherst College's  annual literary festival, The Common Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker sat down with Jennifer Egan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other accolades, to talk about crime, place, and “timely” writing. Read the interview here. 

[thecommonmag]

Unlike a joint activity with equal pleasure, going to a museum or watching TV, reading aloud is largely altruistic. The reader understands and enjoys only in bits and pieces. The listener gains all. My husband and I were both raised as only children; we prize and compartmentalize the solitary pleasures and pain of our work.

from Jennifer Acker’s piece in The Washington Post, “My husband read to me while I was sick. It changed our marriage.”

https://goo.gl/xpbjaO

[hillsidewriting]

Voice and devotion

While we're talking about the power of the human voice, how it invites us and holds us, consider Jennifer Acker's experience with her husband's voice.  

Reading to me, reading stories I had chosen because I needed to hear them, was an intimate act of devotion. It not only helped me with my work, but also allowed me to revel in a side of him I rarely observed. Here were moments both vulnerable and so revealing they proved with a force beyond all reason that I wanted him, all of him, and to be near him always.

Read all about it (aloud?) here. 

[thecommonmag]

TC editor Jennifer Acker speaks with thekenyonreview on our newest online features (The Common Podcast, "Ask a Local," and Long Reads), on our mission as a journal, and on the Internet as Place.