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March 8, 2022
Where Light Travels, Catherine
SONYA GILDEA
When Catherine woke and turned the light on, she was shaking, her whole body was cold. This, she thought, is aftershock. She had been fine all afternoon: a little sleepy, but fine. Now she was trembling. Her feet were freezing.
When Catherine woke and turned the light on, she was shaking, her whole body was cold. This, she thought, is aftershock. She had been fine all afternoon: a little sleepy, but fine. Now she was trembling. Her feet were freezing.
March 4, 2022
Friday Reads: March 2022
ELLY HONG
This month’s round of Friday Reads features two unforgettable collections of short fiction recommended by the TC team. Read on for a sparkling exploration of sapphic love, and dark tales where Japanese folklore is given new life.
This month’s round of Friday Reads features two unforgettable collections of short fiction recommended by the TC team. Read on for a sparkling exploration of sapphic love, and dark tales where Japanese folklore is given new life.
March 3, 2022
Translation: Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun
TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN
To go gray and soft beside Sekito, a classmate / of Joan’s who can no longer compete with her? / To pick daisies and travel for energy. / To listen to the skin, the faces of people / and then decide on what / Georgia said: West! / Intentionally? Because she knew that lovers / couldn’t leave
To go gray and soft beside Sekito, a classmate / of Joan’s who can no longer compete with her? / To pick daisies and travel for energy. / To listen to the skin, the faces of people / and then decide on what / Georgia said: West! / Intentionally? Because she knew that lovers / couldn’t leave
March 2, 2022
Through a Pink Cloud, Darkly: A Review of Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud
By HANNAH GERSEN
A title card at the beginning of Iuli Gerbase’s debut feature, THE PINK CLOUD, informs viewers that its screenplay was written in 2017, and that it was filmed in 2019. What follows is a movie so in tune with the events and moods of 2020 that you would be forgiven for finding this level of prescience impossible to believe.
A title card at the beginning of Iuli Gerbase’s debut feature, THE PINK CLOUD, informs viewers that its screenplay was written in 2017, and that it was filmed in 2019. What follows is a movie so in tune with the events and moods of 2020 that you would be forgiven for finding this level of prescience impossible to believe.
March 1, 2022
2022 Festival of Debut Authors
NEWS AND EVENTS
Join The Common's special events team on April 13th at 7:00pm for our 2022 Festival of Debut Authors, an evening devoted to emerging talents!
Join The Common's special events team on April 13th at 7:00pm for our 2022 Festival of Debut Authors, an evening devoted to emerging talents!
February 25, 2022
Podcast: Julia Cooke on “Past and Future on Rapa Nui”
JULIA COOKE
Julia Cooke speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Past and Future on Rapa Nui,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Julia talks about her trip to Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, a place famous for the mysterious moai statues that dot the remote landscape.
Julia Cooke speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Past and Future on Rapa Nui,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Julia talks about her trip to Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, a place famous for the mysterious moai statues that dot the remote landscape.
February 24, 2022
February 2022 Poetry Feature
SARA MUNJACK
You told this story to me in the park, the one with the hippo with an indented seat at the front, a
spot in the marble where people have stored their old candy wrappers for months.
You told this story to me in the park, the one with the hippo with an indented seat at the front, a
spot in the marble where people have stored their old candy wrappers for months.
February 23, 2022
How Memory Works
TIM TIM CHENG
We see the newspaper for tomorrow, not tomorrow / It’s already midnight. Today that is. News that stays / warm and inky on our fingertips at 2:30 am.
We see the newspaper for tomorrow, not tomorrow / It’s already midnight. Today that is. News that stays / warm and inky on our fingertips at 2:30 am.
February 22, 2022
Excerpt from “Two Sad Clowns”
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
Even Punch and Judy were in love once. They knew the exact clockwise adjustment required to fit their preposterous profiles together for a kiss, her nose to the left of his nose, his chin to the left of her chin. Before the slapstick and the swazzle, the crocodile and the constable, before above all the baby: they’d known how to be sweet to each other.
Even Punch and Judy were in love once. They knew the exact clockwise adjustment required to fit their preposterous profiles together for a kiss, her nose to the left of his nose, his chin to the left of her chin. Before the slapstick and the swazzle, the crocodile and the constable, before above all the baby: they’d known how to be sweet to each other.
Excerpt from The Committed
VIET THANH NGUYEN
We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. Less than nothing, we also saw nothing as we crouched blindly in the unlit belly of our ark, 150 of us sweating in a space not meant for us mammals but for the fish of the sea.
We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. Less than nothing, we also saw nothing as we crouched blindly in the unlit belly of our ark, 150 of us sweating in a space not meant for us mammals but for the fish of the sea.
