My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera

by Beth Kephart

Book Overview

Paper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates--we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart's memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave.

Kephart's obsession with paper began in the wake of her father's death, when she began to handcraft books and make and marble paper in his memory. But it was when she read My Life with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439923949
• ISBN13: 9781439923948
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.2"