News from 3 Chairs
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Creatively Speaking: Making Connections
Say what you will about TikTok and Facebook and the banality of the internet, it does provide us with a unique way to connect with one another. How else would we enjoy the beautiful humanity on display? Or see the world with fresh new eyes? As a matter of fact, my friend Judith Bruder and…
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89 Years Young! New Hybrid Book Based on Author’s Pandemic Podcast Series
Three Chairs Publishing is honored to present From My Button Box: Collected Essays in a Pandemic Time by Judith Bruder. Remember the joy of being held on Grandmother’s lap and listening to a story? Or being at home sick from school and getting to play with the buttons in her button box? Judith does, and…
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What is Ambiguous Grief?
Now on Sale: MANIFEST (zine) #13 Ambiguous Grief In these post-pandemic days with the black veil of politics, wars, mass shootings, and climate change draped over our collective humanity, I suspect we are all suffering, in some way, from what clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Scott Eilers, calls “ambiguous grief.” It’s the realization that something…
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And on the subject of burning books…
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police…
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Creatively Speaking on Frankenstein, Technology, and Time
The experience of reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein a few weeks ago is still haunting me, and I need to talk about this. First of all, the things we get wrong. You probably know that Frankenstein is the scientist — Victor Frankenstein — not the monster, right? Did you also know that the monster looks nothing…
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Poetry is Not a Luxury
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name…
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The Artist as Anarchist
“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.” ― Federico García Lorca
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It’s International Zine Month!
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ZINE MONTH! Come along as we celebrate a month full of zine things! Find out about zines, zine libraries, zine history, how to make your own zine and more! International Zine Month 2023 would not be possible without the lovely Alex Wrekk, who came up with the idea in the first place. Visit…
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Creatively Speaking: The Mind Palace
Have you ever watched the BBC show Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch? It’s a fabulous, contemporary reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional character Sherlock Holmes. There is plenty of intrigue, suspense, and surprises — even in the retelling of stories that are more than 100 years old! One of my favorite features of the show…
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MANIFEST (zine): Stressed Spelled Backwards Is DESSERTS
Issue #12, Stressed Spelled Backwards Is DESSERTS You know that good feeling you get when you eat dessert? That’s your brain’s reward system releasing dopamine. Researchers have shown that sweets rival sex and cocaine when it comes to dopamine triggers. Think about that. Dessert — it’s as good as sex! That explains a lot, doesn’t…
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The Divinity of Creativity
“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your…
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Eureka! Creativity Changes Your Brain
Eureka! The guy named Archimedes ran nude out of his bath tub to the town once he found out the idea the amount of water displaced from the tub was equal to the volume of the object immersed. That is an example of an intuitive creativity. Creativity had already been a vital force in science…
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