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.
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.
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 cites The Common as a new journal that has found its way.
Amherst Magazine features The Common in the Spring 2011 issue: Print Makes a Stand.
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 welcomes The Common’s first issue with open arms, praising the magazine’s beauty, contributors and dedication to print.
The Recorder of Greenfield, MA features The Common: page 1 and page 2.
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.
The Amherst Bulletin explores The Common‘s origins as a print journal, as well as its relationship with Amherst College.
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