Emma Crowe

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Literature in a Digital Age

May 26, 2015
Event Date: 
Saturday, May 30, 2015 – 2:45pm – 3:45pm
Location: 
Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College

The Internet and digital technologies have been described as both a boon to literature and its death knell. What can we say in 2015 about how people write, read and listen to literary stories, poetry, experiences and opinions in the digital age? Can technology enhance our experience and appreciation of literature? How may the very definition of “literature” change in an increasingly digital age? What is the future for non-technologized methods of literary transmittal, also known as “books”?

Join David Kirkpatrick ’75, founder and CEO of Techonomy, Jim Kennedy ’75, senoir vice president of strategic planning at the Associated Press, Alicia Christoff, assistant professor of English, and Jennifer Acker ’00, founder and Editor of Chief of The Common. Presented by the Classes of 1975 and 2000.

May 30, 2015 | 2:45pm

Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College
Part of Amherst College Reunion Weekend.

Literature in a Digital Age
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Plymouth

April 29, 2015

By JOHN MARTIN

Even viewed from a distance, the harborfront tests the capacities of peripheral vision, tall masts and rigging far off to the right, and in front of us, here, clumsy, rectangular structures painted white with enormous, clear windows that darken in the afternoons.

Plymouth
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Calling

Calling

April 15, 2015

By MEGAN HARLAN

My first day in Bukit Tinggi, a town in the rain forest-swathed mountains of West Sumatra—a region home to the Minangkabau ethnic group, the world’s largest matrilineal society—I swore I heard a woman calling the Muslim midday prayer broadcasting from a white mosque.

Calling
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Issue 09 Launch Party at High Horse Bar

April 14, 2015
Event Date: 
Thursday, April 23, 2015 – 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: 
High Horse Bar, Amherst, MA

 

 

Celebrate the launch of Issue 09 with a night of local literature trivia at the High Horse (upstairs) in Amherst, MA! Bring your friends and win summer-inspired prizes!

Featuring readings by Issue 09 contributor Edie Meidav and Issue 08 contributor Jonathan Gerhardson at 7pm.

Join our Facebook Event here!

Issue 09 Launch Party at High Horse Bar
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The Common in the City: Mumbai!

March 26, 2015
Event Date: 
Thursday, May 14, 2015 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: 
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, 20 Cooper Square, New York

 

Join The Common for a unique postcard auction, cocktails/canapes, and music inspired by a night in India.

Featuring Suketu Mehta in conversation with Parul Sehgal.

The Common in the City: Mumbai!
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Jonah’s Babysitter

Jonah’s Babysitter

March 25, 2015

By JOEY DEAN HALE

I’d met Jimmy Reynolds when we were in fifth grade and his parents were the new owners of one of the two grocery stores in Maysville, my hometown of 900 or so, on the banks of the Little Wabash River in southern Illinois. I even went to his house once after school. His dad supervised while we shot off Jimmy’s model rockets, then later his mom cooked hamburgers and homemade fries for us and his younger brothers Jason and Jonah. The Reynolds kids spent that summer with their grandparents back up in Michigan but then with just a few weeks to go before the 1978-79 school year started Jimmy called and asked if I could come over again.

Jonah’s Babysitter
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Robert S. Duncanson and the Birthright of Landscape

March 6, 2015

Curated by AMY HALLIDAY

In his 1838 “Essay on American Scenery,” Thomas Cole—the celebrated “founding father” of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting—wrote that American landscapes are:

a subject that to every American ought to be of surpassing interest; for, whether he beholds the Hudson mingling waters with the Atlantic—explores the central wilds of this vast continent, or stands on the margin of the distant Oregon, he is still in the midst of American scenery—it is his own land; its beauty, its magnificence, its sublimity—all are his; and how undeserving of such a birthright, if he can turn towards it an unobserving eye, an unaffected heart!

Robert S. Duncanson and the Birthright of Landscape
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Snow Falling

Snow Falling

March 4, 2015

By NAILA MOREIRA 

We were tipsy and in a good mood, Paul and I, coming home from our favorite bar in the whirlings of this season’s first “historic snowstorm,” when I noticed the figure floundering in the snow.

Snow Falling
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