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Written by Donald Brown
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 21:32 |
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 NEW HAVEN — What’s the value of printed matter in this era of the internet and downloadable "books"? Though electronic text may be "forever" in some sense, it also seems rather ephemeral, particularly as retrieval and archiving may become fraught with archaic technology at some point. By contrast, the book, since the clay tablets of Mesopotamia, has been with us "forever" already. If the Word becomes digital, then it may be that the printed word will become a collector’s item, to be treasured as a rarity or scarce commodity, unlike the droves of cheap commercial text printed to be pulped in print’s heyday.
A rationale something like that has inspired Alexis Zanghi to open Detritus, on 71 Orange Street in New Haven, as "a curated bookstore offering chapbooks, artist books, zines and other ephemeral/editioned media." The use of "ephemeral" in that description might imply that the small press and art press means of production — small runs, short shelf-life — could become, paradoxically, the best way to preserve work in a form you won’t need a web-connection, computer, or screen to access.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 21:52 |
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Written by Nick Keppler
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:16 |
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 Every teenager has a few choice words to say about how well their parents are parenting. (“I hate you!” seem to be the most popular three.) 15-year-old Emma Dubin has 144 pages worth. Dubin, who is about to start her sophomore year at Wilton High School, is the author of How to Parent Emma and Other Young Teens, by Emma, a guide available through the self-publishing services of iUniverse and Amazon.com. She says she started writing it at age 12, after her mother gave her a copy of Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 New York Times bestseller about the social and inner lives of 21st-century adolescent girls.
“One of the best things about that book is that it points out all the things about cliques that are universal,” says Dubin. “At first, I looked at it from a narcissistic teenager-girl perspective, thinking, ‘Which one of these descriptions fits my friends?’, but eventually I became interested in the child-to-parent relationship.” She read other books about teens for parents and compiled her own thoughts, completing the book when she was 14.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:58 |
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Written by Brianna Snyder
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:48 |
Grass-roots funding for the arts, both virtually and analog-ly
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Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:51 |
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Written by Geoffrey Detrani
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 15:00 |
Yale curator writes a micro-history of the finger
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 17:39 |
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Written by Laurel Tuohy
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:16 |
Birds do bong hits in the graffiti-inspired art of Newtown’s Douglas Calderone
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Written by Jodi Strmiska
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 20:52 |
Fritz Haeg makes over the front lawn of the Aldrich
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Written by Hank Hoffman
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 13:00 |
Sculpture show creates poetry from prosaic materials
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 15:24 |
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Written by Alex Dueben
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:15 |
Stuck Rubber Baby aligns gay rights with racial equality and the Civil Rights era
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Written by Alan Bisbort
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:00 |
A stunning exhibit of M.C. Escher’s work in New Britain
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 23:22 |
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Written by Geoffrey Detrani
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 22:28 |
Art that moves you to dream of someplace else as you move
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 22:36 |
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Written by Alan Bisbort
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 21:54 |
Historical society exhibit showcases Hartford printmakers, the Kellogg Brothers
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 21:58 |
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