News & Lectures


UPCOMING APPEARANCES

11.20.08 6:30 pm
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York NY
(Katie Murphy Auditorium)

02.12.09 7:00 pm
Portfolio Center, Atlanta GA


PRESS & NEWS

Elsa Dixler, “Holiday Books”
The New York Times Book Review, December 6, 2008

Joy Press, “Beyond the Valley of the Doilies”
Salon, December 04, 2008

Jim Shelton, “Ticket Stubs, War Medals and Candy Wrappers”
New Haven Register, November 30, 2008

Linda Ocasio, “A Perfect Hobby for These Anxious Times”
The Star-Ledger, November 26, 2008

Fast Company

Jenna Weissman Joselit, “Paste and Future”
The New Republic, November 19, 2008, 42.

David Crumm,“301: 10 Great New Books to Watch with wisdom, wit and lots of pictures, too”
Read the Spirit, November 17, 2008

“Scrapbooking Chat”
The Boston Globe, November 17, 2008

Mark Feeney, “Putting All the Pieces Together”
The Boston Globe, November 16, 2008

Allison Arieff, “Scrapbook Stories”
Sunset, November 13, 2008

Tracey O’Shaughnessy, “The Great American Scrapbook”
Republican American, November 9, 2008

Linda Fantin, “Scrapbooking: Crafters akin to historians”
The Salt Lake Tribune, November 8, 2008

Jennifer Forker “Which Craft: Scrapbooks valued as history”
The Associated Press, October 22, 2008
Appearing in these publications:
Asbury Park Press, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Baxter Bulletin, Canada East: The Daily Gleaner, The Canadian Press, The Columbus Dispatch, Columbia Tribune, The Daily Sentinel, The Detroit Free Press, Evansville Courier Press, Go Erie, The Hawk Eye, Herald Net, The Jamestown Sun, Marietta Daily Journal, MSNBC, Newark Star-Ledger, North Penn Reporter, The Pottstown Mercury, Poughkeepsie Journal, The Reading Eagle, Register Journal, Salina Journal, Sun Journal, Tennessean, Waco Tribune-Herald, and WRAL Raleigh-Durham.

Howard Pousner, “Q&A with Jessica Helfand”
Atlanta Journal & Constitution, November 3, 2008

Macy Halford, “Cut & Paste”
The New Yorker, October 21, 2008

The Editors, “More Titles”
I.D. Magazine, November/December 2008, 139.

Jennifer Forker “Scrapbooks Valued as History”
The Mercury, October 21, 2008

The Editors, “Approval Matrix”
New York Magazine, October 19, 2008, 76.

“Compelling Image”
Varoom, Issue 7, 2008, 82.

Claire Lui, "Rumble in the Hobby Lobby"
Print, October 2008, 16.

Rob Walker, “Shared Memories”
The New York Times Magazine, September 14, 2008, 24.

Thomas Hine, “Scraps of Memory”
Yale Alumni Magazine, September/October 2008, 66.

The Editors, “The Good Book”
Step Inside Design, September/October 2008, 166.

The Editors, “Graphic Books”
Graphic Design USA, August 26, 2008, online.

The Editors, "Hidden Gems: The Best Yet to Come."
Amazon, August 22, 2008, online.

Linda Fantin, “Scrapbook Insider”
Salt Lake Tribune, July 15, 2008, online.

Joshua Glenn “Brainiac Summer Reading”
Boston Globe, June 27, 2008, online.

Jessica Helfand “Summerscapes”
The New York Times, June 8 2008, Op-Ed13.

Brigitte Ruthman “Long-lost Scrapbook of Waterbury Soldier”
Republican American, October 2, 2007, 1A.

Jessica Helfand “What We Saved”
Aperture, Summer 2006, 40.

BLOG NOTICES
Falmanac: The Fallston Almanac of American History, December 09, 2008

Bricolage, December 08, 2008

Books In Heat, December 06, 2008

“Is Scrapbooking Art? Does it Matter?”
La Moretta, December 04, 2008

“To Give and To Get...”
Elements, December 04, 2008
v “Reconsidering Crafts”
To The Best of Our Knowledge, December 12, 2008

“Composition as Assemblage”
writingtechnologies, November 22, 2008

“The Fool and the Keeper of Family History”
Wedding Scrapbooking, November 23, 2008

The Paper Collector, November 20, 2008

“Scott to Frances Scott to F. Scott”
ZYZZYVASPEAKS, October 30, 2008

“Anne Sexton's Scrapbook”
Poetry Foundation, October 29, 2008

“Scrapbooks, Baby Blogs and Memory”
Institute for the Future

Diana Page Jordan, “Scrapbooking, Might As Well”
Diana Page Jordan, October 24, 2008

Bonita Rose, “Oooooo, I Want This!”
A Life Unrehearsed/Volume Two, October 24, 2008

Tina Roth Eisenberg, “Scrapbooks, An American History”
Swiss Miss, October 22, 2008

“Jessica Helfand's "Scrapbooks: An American History"
Behind The Approval Matrix, October 21, 2008

“Scrapbooks an American History”
Shades of the Departed, October 16, 2008

“She’s Crafty”
Departika, October 10, 2008

“Scrapbooks of Old”
Shades of the Departed, October 8, 2008

"A Different View"
Scrap Smack, October 4, 2008

Linda Norris, "Scrapbooks"
The Uncataloged Museum, October 2, 2008

"The Daily Scrapbook"
Illustration Friday, September 30, 2008

"Jessica Helfand's Book/Site"
Core 77, September 25, 2008

Daniel & Jacqueline Gross
Anew Designs, September 25, 2008

Douglas Rushkoff, "Great Books By Women"
Boing Boing, September 24, 2008

Armand B. Frasco
Moleskinerie, September 17, 2008

Armand B. Frasco
Notebookism, September 17, 2008

Richard J. Cox, “Scrapbook History”
Reading Archive, September 14 2008, online.

The Editors, “Bookshop - August”
Suziebeezieland, August 4, 2008, online.

The Editors, “Jessica Helfand Discusses Scrapbooking”
Ephemera, May 18, 2007, online.



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In this Op-Ed page SUMMERSCAPES, Jessica Helfand reflects on the fascinating "Stunt" Book kept by a young California debutante in the summer of 1920.

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