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Let’s Talk About Revolution: a Conversation Between Deb Olin Unferth and Jennifer Acker

April 18, 2011 Interviews

Deb Olin Unferth likes to change it up. Her first book was the story collection Minor Robberies, then came the novel Vacation, and this winter she published a memoir. Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, like much of her other work in other forms, tells a daring story rife with humor and touched with melancholy, desire, and regret.

Buttons

April 13, 2011 Dispatches

By JESSICA ADAMS

In a long, low building with a tin roof, people from this village turn clamshells into buttons. Beyond the broken windows lie middens of clamshells, punctuated with precise and uniform holes. The gravel mixes with broken shells and thick, pale unfinished buttons.

Brooklyn Book Festival

April 11, 2011 News and Events

Event Date:

Sunday, September 18, 2011 – 10:00am

Location:

Brooklyn Borough Hall

Join us at the Brooklyn Book Festival, the “largest free literary event in New York City,” on September 18. Enjoy themed readings, panel discussions, and book signings, all at beautiful Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Archipelago

April 6, 2011 Dispatches

By IAN MACLELLAN

In Greece, people visit islands. There are a lot of islands to visit. They head for beaches, coastline, the sea, to lie on the shore and look out at the water. But to find an island, you should really look inland. The island is the thing behind you. Turn around.

On a small Cycladic island, a second home for me by marriage, I swelter by the beach. Idyllic, busy, and anonymous. A limited sense of context: a watery horizon; sand; shops, bars and restaurants. At 40°C in the shade, it’s all swimming costumes and ice cream and plastic toys.

The New Yorker (2011)

April 3, 2011 News and Events

The New Yorker cites The Common as a new journal that has found its way.

Amherst Magazine (2011)

April 3, 2011 News and Events

Amherst Magazine features The Common in the Spring 2011 issue: Print Makes a Stand.

The Millions (2011)

April 3, 2011 News and Events

The Millions affirms The Common‘s mission; essayist Sonya Chung says that, through The Common, “I seem to find my nowhere-somewhere, a peculiar feeling of home; my modern sense of place.”

Orion Magazine (2011)

April 3, 2011 News and Events

Orion Magazine welcomes The Common’s first issue with open arms, praising the magazine’s beauty, contributors and dedication to print.

The Recorder (2011)

April 3, 2011 News and Events

The Recorder of Greenfield, MA features The Common: page 1 and page 2.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette (2011)

April 3, 2011 News and Events

The Daily Hampshire Gazette explores The Common‘s ties to a larger literary tradition at Amherst College and asks: is launching a print magazine in 2011 “swimming against the tide?” Maybe. But editor Jennifer Acker has faith.