The Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed, named Rolf Potts’ “Tourist Snapshots,” from The Common Issue 03, as a Notable Essay of 2012.
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Did you grow up in the GCC countries in the Gulf? If so, The Common wants your work for its Fall 2021 issue, which will feature a portfolio on migration, disorientation, and complicated relationships to “place” in the Gulf.