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On Friday, April 11, 2025, I met Julie Averbach at Book Trader to talk about another trader: Joe. Her debut publication, “The Art of Trader Joe’s,” traces the origins of the illustrations that adorn the aisles of the beloved supermarket, from the ancient Roman sculpture on Trader Joe's Caesar Salad to the Art Nouveau icons on the store's wine labels. The book drew from her award-winning senior History of Art thesis on Trader Joe’s as a contemporary cabinet of curiosities, a premise she developed with Professor Edward Cooke, who specializes in the study of decorative arts. With the help of her degree, Averbach fit her thesis into digestible bites, filling 201 pages with blurbs on Baloonomania, Peruvian textiles and unusual stacking arrangements. She designed and published the bound book herself. I transcribed our conversation below.

April 25, 2025

The Yale School of Management offers “Entrepreneurship in the Art Market” in the first half of the Fall semester. Magnus Resch, author of “How to […]

October 25, 2024

Jackson Arn always wanted to end up in New York. After he came to Yale for a college tea and visited my class on “writing about figurative painting,” and students from the class pestered him for meetings, feedback on the work and interviews for the News, I talked with him at a Think Coffee — one of his spots in the East Village — to ask about replacing Peter Schjeldahl as The New Yorker’s newest art critic, and find out what this guy actually does.

September 19, 2024

New Haven students published their annual paper for the tenth year in a row, featuring reporting, opinions and an ongoing video project.

March 4, 2024

On Thursday, Nov. 30, Ben Kronengold ’18 and Rebecca Shaw ’18 read short essays at the Poorvu Center from their first book, “Naked in the Rideshare,” which hit bookshelves on Nov. 14. They graduated from Yale in 2018, moving on to become the youngest comedy writers to write for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” but they left the show a few years ago to work in scripted television and film. Their work has since been featured in The New Yorker — most recently, a chapter from “Naked in the Rideshare” was excerpted by Shouts and Murmurs — and McSweeney’s. 

December 9, 2023

The gallery opened on Chapel Street in August and hosts artists exhibitions alongside a tasting menu to complement their work.

October 11, 2023

Parents and children celebrated New Haven’s pride festival with a story hour at Mitchell Library.

September 22, 2023

Taylor Swift, please don’t read this article. I know she will. At this point, she must know my work; our relationship can’t be one-sided.  She […]

April 22, 2023

This weekend, the Yale Dramatic Coalition's reproduction of the 16th century play that defined the genre of Romantic Comedy is showing in the Morse-Stiles Crescent.

March 3, 2023

“Crush…ed” brought songs about first love and heartbreaks — and a three course meal — to the Davenport Common Room on Friday night.

February 20, 2023

I believe in Pennsylvania. I believe in the keystone state. I believe in freedom, rolling hills, “Brotherly Love,” the Reading Terminal Market and saying “wooder” […]

February 9, 2023