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August Dias

Katherine Vaz speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias,” which appears in Issue 20 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Vaz talks about her long career of writing novels and short stories about Portuguese and Portuguese-American characters, and their rich, complex communities. She also discusses her current project, a heavily researched historical novel about Portuguese immigrants set during the Civil War.Katherine Vaz is the author of the novels Saudade and Mariana, the latter translated in six languages. Her story collection Fado &amp; Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the collection Our Lady of the Artichokes &amp; Other Portuguese-American Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She is the first Portuguese American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress, and she served on the six-person Presidential Delegation to the World’s Fair in Lisbon in 1998. She is a teacher of “Writing the Luso Experience,” a workshop at the DISQUIET conference each summer in Lisbon.Read “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias” by Katherine Vaz at thecommononline.org/the-treasure-hunt-of-august-dias.Learn more about Katherine Vaz and her work at katherinevaz.com, and find her books and collections here.Follow Katherine Vaz on Twitter at @KatherineVaz1.The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag.Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter @Public_Emily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Katherine Vaz speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias,” which appears in Issue 20 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Vaz talks about her long career of writing novels and short stories about Portuguese and Portuguese-American characters, and their rich, complex communities. She also discusses her current project, a heavily researched historical novel about Portuguese immigrants set during the Civil War.Katherine Vaz is the author of the novels Saudade and Mariana, the latter translated in six languages. Her story collection Fado &amp; Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the collection Our Lady of the Artichokes &amp; Other Portuguese-American Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She is the first Portuguese American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress, and she served on the six-person Presidential Delegation to the World’s Fair in Lisbon in 1998. She is a teacher of “Writing the Luso Experience,” a workshop at the DISQUIET conference each summer in Lisbon.Read “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias” by Katherine Vaz at <a href="https://www.thecommononline.org/the-treasure-hunt-of-august-dias/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thecommononline.org/the-treasure-hunt-of-august-dias</a>.Learn more about Katherine Vaz and her work at <a href="http://katherinevaz.com/bio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">katherinevaz.com</a>, and find her books and collections <a href="https://bookshop.org/contributors/katherine-vaz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Follow Katherine Vaz on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/KatherineVaz1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@KatherineVaz1</a>.The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at <a href="https://thecommononline.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thecommononline.org</a>, and follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/CommonMag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@CommonMag</a>.<a href="https://www.emily-everett.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Everett</a> is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Public_Emily" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Public_Emily</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature</a>

Katherine Vaz “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias,” The Common magazine (Fall, 2020)

Katherine Vaz speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias,” which appears in Issue 20 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Vaz talks about her long career of writing novels and short stories about Portuguese and Portuguese-American characters, and their rich, complex communities. She also discusses her current project, a heavily researched historical novel about Portuguese immigrants set during the Civil War.Katherine Vaz is the author of the novels Saudade and Mariana, the latter translated in six languages. Her story collection Fado &amp; Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the collection Our Lady of the Artichokes &amp; Other Portuguese-American Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She is the first Portuguese American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress, and she served on the six-person Presidential Delegation to the World’s Fair in Lisbon in 1998. She is a teacher of “Writing the Luso Experience,” a workshop at the DISQUIET conference each summer in Lisbon.Read “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias” by Katherine Vaz at thecommononline.org/the-treasure-hunt-of-august-dias.Learn more about Katherine Vaz and her work at katherinevaz.com, and find her books and collections here.Follow Katherine Vaz on Twitter at @KatherineVaz1.The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag.Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter @Public_Emily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Katherine Vaz speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias,” which appears in Issue 20 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Vaz talks about her long career of writing novels and short stories about Portuguese and Portuguese-American characters, and their rich, complex communities. She also discusses her current project, a heavily researched historical novel about Portuguese immigrants set during the Civil War.Katherine Vaz is the author of the novels Saudade and Mariana, the latter translated in six languages. Her story collection Fado &amp; Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the collection Our Lady of the Artichokes &amp; Other Portuguese-American Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She is the first Portuguese American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress, and she served on the six-person Presidential Delegation to the World’s Fair in Lisbon in 1998. She is a teacher of “Writing the Luso Experience,” a workshop at the DISQUIET conference each summer in Lisbon.Read “The Treasure Hunt of August Dias” by Katherine Vaz at <a href="https://www.thecommononline.org/the-treasure-hunt-of-august-dias/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thecommononline.org/the-treasure-hunt-of-august-dias</a>.Learn more about Katherine Vaz and her work at <a href="http://katherinevaz.com/bio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">katherinevaz.com</a>, and find her books and collections <a href="https://bookshop.org/contributors/katherine-vaz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Follow Katherine Vaz on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/KatherineVaz1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@KatherineVaz1</a>.The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at <a href="https://thecommononline.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thecommononline.org</a>, and follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/CommonMag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@CommonMag</a>.<a href="https://www.emily-everett.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Everett</a> is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Public_Emily" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Public_Emily</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network</a>

Chris Sharp

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on September 20, 2017, with readers Katherine Vaz &amp; Chris Sharp. Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for Matt Kressel. Katherine Vaz Katherine Vaz is best known for her fictional chronicling of the stories of the Portuguese in America, often with a magical-realism twist. Her novels include Saudade, a Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and Mariana, selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top Thirty International Books of 1998. Her collections Fado &amp; Other Stories and Our Lady of the Artichokes &amp; Other Portuguese-American Stories have won, respectively, a Drue Heinz Literature Award and a Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She’s taught fiction as a Briggs-Copeland Fellow at Harvard and was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She’s a frequent contributor to the anthologies of Ellen Datlow (and Terri Windling), plus a story in the upcoming Mad Hatters and March Hares.   &amp; Chris Sharp Chris Sharp is the author of Cold Counsel, a human-free, post-Ragnarok, dark fantasy romp and The Elementalists, a YA epic about dragons and climate change—with new installments coming soon to both series. His articles have appeared in Tor.com, and he also writes extensively for feature films and episodic television. Prior to moving to MA and committing full time to writing, he worked as an independent film/commercial producer in NYC. His photography has appeared in New York Times Magazine, his drawing in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and some of the films he produced have won awards at festivals around the world.

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on September 20, 2017, with readers Katherine Vaz &amp; Chris Sharp. Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for Matt Kressel. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0996717560/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reddwarf0e-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0996717560&amp;linkId=74aef3a0a70238e559eee0b2d17ac760" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><h2>Katherine Vaz</h2> Katherine Vaz is best known for her fictional chronicling of the stories of the Portuguese in America, often with a magical-realism twist. Her novels include Saudade, a Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and Mariana, selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top Thirty International Books of 1998. Her collections <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0996717560/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reddwarf0e-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0996717560&amp;linkId=74aef3a0a70238e559eee0b2d17ac760" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fado &amp; Other Stories</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0996717560/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reddwarf0e-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0996717560&amp;linkId=74aef3a0a70238e559eee0b2d17ac760" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our Lady of the Artichokes &amp; Other Portuguese-American Stories</a> have won, respectively, a Drue Heinz Literature Award and a Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She’s taught fiction as a Briggs-Copeland Fellow at Harvard and was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She’s a frequent contributor to the anthologies of Ellen Datlow (and Terri Windling), plus a story in the upcoming Mad Hatters and March Hares. <h3>&amp;</h3> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JZ6SJ1G/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reddwarf0e-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01JZ6SJ1G&amp;linkId=192c51b9f9b68fe70f012b1f0047aba5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><h2>Chris Sharp</h2> Chris Sharp is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JZ6SJ1G/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reddwarf0e-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01JZ6SJ1G&amp;linkId=192c51b9f9b68fe70f012b1f0047aba5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cold Counsel</a>, a human-free, post-Ragnarok, dark fantasy romp and The Elementalists, a YA epic about dragons and climate change—with new installments coming soon to both series. His articles have appeared in <a href="http://Tor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tor.com</a>, and he also writes extensively for feature films and episodic television. Prior to moving to MA and committing full time to writing, he worked as an independent film/commercial producer in NYC. His photography has appeared in New York Times Magazine, his drawing in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and some of the films he produced have won awards at festivals around the world.

Audio from Sept 20th with Katherine Vaz & Chris Sharp