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Given the UK’s current postal strike, it seems the perfect time to talk about Abe’s Penny.
Calling itself “A Micro Magazine”, each monthly issue arrives in your letterbox divided into four postcards, one each week. A collaboration between different photographers and writers each time, the texts are short, the images unexpected and the delivery method engaging.
I’ve now received four ‘issues’ (1.4-1.7), and here’s what I think.
This website focuses on developments
in the magazine industry around
the world.
It is written by
Andrew Losowsky,
a writer and editor based in the USA. He has so far edited two books about magazines, and
has ideas for
many more.
He writes about magazines for The Wall Street Journal and others, and
is co-curator of
the Colophon international magazine biennale. He also runs
Stack America.
The rest of the time, he creates experiences.
