Sponsored by The Book Club of California. “Presenting Jane” honors the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth through an exploration of the challenges, discoveries, and new ways a 21st-century audience has encountered the woman and her work. In this ATBL-Book Club of California event, collector and curator Mary Crawford alongside Professor and Library Director Kirsten […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. In the Middle Ages, monsters were of great interest to artists, authors, and theologians. They appear in all visual media and all textual genres. They were, to their creators, both serious subjects of contemplation and fun entertainment. This talk will focus on a particular set of medieval monsters […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. Horace Walpole wrote a letter in which he coined the word serendipity. The Royal and Ancient Gold Club of St Andrews got on course. A 22-year-old George Washington leads an ambush that triggers the French and Indian War. Louis XVI is born. What will become Columbia University is chartered in […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. This talk is based on the book Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream,” which delves into the social and cultural history of Korean Americans in Los Angeles, focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. The presentation will explore the argument that building […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico's first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, textbooks, children's literature, pornographic paperbacks, […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. What does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long, popular culture, from Hollywood Westerns to novels, music, and television, has erased or distorted Black presence in the West, leaving us with an incomplete story of American identity. Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place […]