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Some of the books published by Meat for Tea Press Twenty years ago, Elizabeth MacDuffie was working at Holyoke Community College teaching classes as an adjunct professor to make some extra money while pursuing a PhD, when her colleague Alexandra Wagman turned to her and said “we should start a literary magazine.” Today, Meat for Tea is still doing what it originally was intending to be – a space for literary creatives in the Western Massachusetts area to publish their work.

Richard Stephens is a contemplative artist who takes from real life and values people’s stories, and his artist book based on Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried will be shown at the Northampton Book Fair this year, his fourth year exhibiting. The book features responses from veterans when asked what they carried with them during their time of service, and is hand-bound and made with letterpress with great care.

Peter Stern is a long-time exhibitor at the upcoming Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair. Stern specializes in selling and collecting old and rare fiction books from the nineteenth and twentieth century.