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My Life in Paper : Adventures in Ephemera / Beth Kephart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kephart, Beth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Printed ephemera.
- Kephart, Beth--Family.
- Kephart, Beth.
- Genre:
- Creative nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Highly personal and idiosyncratically historical, this book is a memoirist's guide to more than fifty paper objects, including report cards, maps, menus, spreadsheets, broadsides, library cards, prescriptions, tickets, books, dictionaries, file folder, and legal tender--and an invitation to readers whose stories might be a single box or shelf away"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Prelude
- Remembering
- Baby Book
- Scrapbook
- Photograph
- Menu
- Homework
- Diary
- Craft
- Paper Bag
- Amateur Art
- Saturation
- Oatmeal Box
- Home
- Recipe
- Paper Games
- Sewing Pattern
- Map
- Sheet Music
- Deed
- Obsession
- Blueprints
- Instructions
- Family Trees
- Rare Books
- Possession
- Ticket
- Library Card
- Receipt
- Paper Doily
- Legal Tender
- Ambition
- Homework (Redux)
- File Folder
- Dictionary
- Datebook
- Understanding
- Paper Box
- Ballot
- Luminary
- Blank Book
- Doubt
- Report Card
- Syllabus
- Spreadsheet
- Making
- Wasp Paper
- Broadsides
- Pulp
- Love
- Postcard
- Certificate
- Gift Wrap
- Prescription
- Confidence
- Diploma
- Draft
- Book
- Résumé
- Correspondence
- Almost Letters to Lost Friends
- Dear Bill
- Dear Jeremy
- Dear Dad
- Dear Mom
- Dear Professor Kephart
- Erasures
- Death Certificate
- Address Book
- Picture Album
- Yielding
- Obituary (One)
- Obituary (Two)
- After Life
- Envelope
- Will
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Sources.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439923962
- 1439923965
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