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Managing Editor | Barbara Price |
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Categories | zine |
Frequency | monthly |
Format | digest |
Founder | David Greenberger |
Founded | 1979 |
First issue | 1979 |
Country | United States |
Based in | Saratoga Springs, New York |
Language | English |
Website | DuplexPlanet.com |
ISSN | 0882-2549 |
The Duplex Planet is a zine edited and published by David Greenberger since 1979. It contains transcriptions of his interviews with elderly residents of senior centers and "meal sites" in the Massachusetts area. For many years, the zine focused on the residents of the Duplex Nursing Home, located in Boston.
The Duplex Planet has subsequently found larger audiences in other forms — which are all derived from the original template — including book collections, spoken-word recordings, and a series of concerts. A series of personal commentaries drawn from Greenberger's experiences with this body of work has aired regularly on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".
Some of the Duplex Nursing Home residents, all identified by name, became recurring characters in the zine and its various offshoots and adaptations.