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An experimental publishing practice that makes unusual books about care. A collaboration between a social worker and a graphic designer.

Washington, DC
Joined October 2017
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What works? Block parties with shots. Bringing vaccines to food pantries, shopping centers, churches, work sites. Offering real childcare and transportation options. And, of course, mandating paid leave for vaccination and recovery.
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This $33 “bouquet” features three books from presses that publish “drama as a balm for our beloved (and sad theater) lovers out there”— @3HolePress @53rdStatePress @thickpress. 3holepress.org/bookstore/edi…
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Can't recommend our friends at @3HolePress & @53rdStatePress enough, and Rachel's latest from @thickpress is FANTASTIC as well. Go grab this great deal!
we're bundling up w/ @3HolePress & @thickpress to offer a book bouquet--3 books from 3 presses for $33! the bouquet includes #AlesheaHarris's Is God Is, #KristenKosmas's The People's Republic of Valerie, Living Room Edition, and @rachelkauder's Stages: 3holepress.org/bookstore/edi…
we're bundling up w/ @3HolePress & @thickpress to offer a book bouquet--3 books from 3 presses for $33! the bouquet includes #AlesheaHarris's Is God Is, #KristenKosmas's The People's Republic of Valerie, Living Room Edition, and @rachelkauder's Stages: 3holepress.org/bookstore/edi…
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Join us for a reading and conversation with Cathy Park Hong, moderated by Maggie Nelson, next WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14th at 7:00pm (Eastern Time). Free and open to the public. Register here to receive the Zoom link and password: bit.ly/3kQiVLA
Sign up now for "MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING: A Conversation with Cathy Park Hong + Maggie Nelson" on Weds., Oct. 14th at 7PM (EST). Registration is free and easy: just type in your name/email + you'll receive a link: bit.ly/3kQiVLA @cathyparkhong
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Were pleased to welcome rrrrkkkknnnn and meimeichang on Wednesday 9/23 at 7PM! 📚🎨🎭 Join us on our Facebook Live as Rachel Kauder Nalebuff discusses the themes of her 2020 book STAGES: On Dying, Working, and Feeling… instagram.com/p/CEzm7zhBtaW/…
We hosted @rachelkauder and Sarah Ruhl for a beautiful conversation on their new books, STAGES and LETTERS FROM MAX. The playwrights shared insight on grief, plot, mischief, imagination, and the captivating drama of coming to know another person. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2Je…
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Why Has Society Failed to Integrate Grief Into Public Life? bit.ly/31T594B
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reading @rachelkauder's stunningly gorgeous new book STAGES (@thickpress) about making plays w/staff and residents in a nursing home. moved + awed, as always, by RKN's deep art of care + attention.
A conversation with @thickpress on the limits of writing as it relates to grief and memorialization, out from @DIRTDMV dirtdmv.com/writing/2020/4/2…
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IMMINENTLY LIVE: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff reading from STAGES (@ThickPress). To listen go now to @rachelkauder
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Two days! @rachelkauder reads live from STAGES, out now with @thickpress. "But what I really want to do is make a ceremony. A ceremony for the staff of every nursing home across the country." Tune in here this Sunday 3/22 at 5:30pm EST.
THREE DAYS! @rachelkauder reads from STAGES @thickpress Sunday 3/22 @ 5:30pm EST. "I must fall in love tonight, I would think to myself on the train ride home."
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"I'm just here to kill the time, said the next woman, flatly. [...] This struck me as a much more honest answer for why we make art." @rachelkauder reads from Stages @thickpress in 4 days.
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Michael! Thank you so much for doing this. As writers, our attention for one another is a life source. Thank you for including Stages (@thickpress) on your recommended list!
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We trust caregivers with our homes and families. We should trust caregivers to lead us in the response to coronavrius, because domestic workers are on the front lines of the crisis. More in @nytopinion: nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opini…
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"I can start over every day." - @gracedplace in the @thickpress book Selfcarefully. This lovely book is made of meditations on ways that we can care for ourselves (and others.) It was written one meditation at a time, and that's how I've been reading/sav… ift.tt/2UfwvxS
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We have new-to us zines! zines.barnard.edu/news/new-u… With zines from or by @syndprod @emalfo @mik_loves_pie @haejinduck @thickpress. And new-to-us #LCSH Belonging (Social Psychology) Nursing homes-Employees-Interviews Pies-Surveys War tax resistance-Personal narratives #zinelibraries
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