Tag Archives: Book Trader Cafe

Stacks on Stacks

Book Stack on Desk

After trying spine poetry at home, I set out to see what I could build elsewhere. Starting at Grey Matter Books on York Street, I realized that curating a stack of books whose titles could add up to a …

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Mother Lode

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Mother’s Day is Sunday, and if you’re still considering where to go or what to give, this article’s for you. …

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This Week in New Haven (November 22 – 28)

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New Haven’s Thanksgiving Week traditions—impudent live music, delightful model trains, locavorous gift shopping—return. …

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Food Change

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It was Nieda Abbas’s home cooking, more than anything, that got Caterina Passoni through her first year at Yale. …

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Stacked Deck

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New Haven really stacks up.

For example, in this city, you don’t have to work too hard to find a good stack of food. Vito’s sandwiches are reliable and comforting. Meat & Co.’s are complex and gourmet.…

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Critical Mass

Greater New Haven Writers' Group

Every other Wednesday evening, Book Trader Cafe’s usual mix of ones and twos makes room for a six or seven.

The gatherers pull some tables together and borrow spare chairs. They shuffle papers and scribble notes. They utter …

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Connect Four

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The four-letter words New Haven likes to say say a lot about New Haven. …

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Power Animals

Torosaurus outside the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven

Round a few corners in downtown New Haven and you’re bound to see a piece of public art. What you’re unlikely to see is a certain category of it: sculptures of animals, or at least the non-…

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Storm Chasers

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Like the movie, Juno the storm (a.k.a. Colbie) ended up delivering a more wholesome message than observers predicted.

Powdery, wispy and drifting…

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Readers Digest

Book Trader Cafe

If you think about it, books and sandwiches have a lot in common. The outside packaging may be attractive, but it’s the filling that matters.

Dave Duda understands that you shouldn’t judge either a novel…

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