October Midday Program Here’s a little quiz: Who was the second person to walk on the moon? What is Milorad Čavić’s distinction? Are you ready to Buzz in and name Buzz Aldrin as the second human being to step down onto the lunar surface? Or did you think of the one one-hundredth of a second […]
Manuscript Monday - A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, October 12 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: Jeffrey Rovenpor, owner of Caroliniana Rare Books Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society Presentation is pre-recorded with a LIVE Q&A to follow with presenter Jeffrey Rovenpor Title: Vernacular Archives Overview: Jeffrey Rovenpor of Caroliniana […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview with Beverly Adams, Kevin Saliou, Éric Walbecq, and Caroline Weber Presented by ANOTHER SPACE at the Grolier Club, We Are All Ducassians brings together scholars and curators to explore the enduring legacy of Isidore Ducasse, better known as the Comte de Lautréamont (b. 1846 Montevideo, Uruguay – d. 1870 Paris, France), […]
What does it take to bring a remarkable book into the world? Join the co-publishers of Transit Books for a behind-the-scenes conversation about the role of award-winning, nonprofit publishing—from discovering singular voices and acquiring international literature to editing, designing, translating, producing, and championing books that find devoted readers around the world. Founded in 2015 in […]
How we grow, harvest, distribute, and consume food is bound up with how we use (and abuse) environmental resources, and how we achieve (or undermine) collective well-being. In North Stars of Emancipation, Antonio Roman-Alcalá finds in the radical experiments of new food movements the seeds of a world liberated from old, extractive systems, where a more […]
Sponsored by NOBS Oct 22, 7:00pm-8:30pm Eastern Join us for a Forum that is sure to have you swooning! Julie Blitz has been reading romance novels since age 11 when she stole her grandmother’s Danielle Steel novels off her bookshelf. In the 40 years since, she has read many thousands of romance novels, joined romance […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our speaker for December 15, 2036 is author Eileen Buckholtz. Her 2026 book, Queens of Code, explores the increasingly important role of women in the dawn of the computer age and beyond, within the clandestine halls of the super secret National Security Agency. For a link contact Binnie Syril Braunstein, […]