Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday - A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, May 11 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: Barrye Brown, Curator of Manuscripts, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society A live presentation followed by a […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In 1960 the aspiring Texas writer Larry McMurtry enrolled in Stanford University with a fellowship in the Stegner creative writing program. Along with his studies, McMurtry became immersed in the world of antiquarian and used bookshops that flourished during that time in the San Francisco Bay Area, and […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors. Paul Muldoon and Grolier Club member, Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors, as […]
Sponsored by FABS Bookbinding models replicate book structures to show us how a book operates. They range from practical to experimental and may reproduce bookbinding techniques from various eras and cultures. Model-making has been a research and instructional method in the Libraries’ Conservation Lab since its inception in the mid-1980s. Today, the Book Model Collection […]
Sponsored by FABS Join your host Bill Bryson and this congenial group for discussion of all things bibliophilic and nineteenth- century. To receive a link and join the mailing list, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org).
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With R. F. Foster, Belinda McKeon, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica R. F. Foster, Belinda McKeon, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica come together for a wide‑ranging virtual conversation on Risings: The Irish Literary Renaissance and the Making of a Nation. As foremost historians, writers, critics and scholars in their respective fields, […]
Sponsored by FABS Join your host Reid Byers (author of The Private Library) and the gang for discussion of the joys and challenges of the home library. To join the mailing list and receive a link, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Lecture with Carla Kaplan Acclaimed biographer Carla Kaplan, author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (HarperCollins), will explore the print and manuscript culture of Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) and her five sisters, members of a famous British literary family. They wrote autobiographical novels and memoirs, offering wildly contrasting accounts of […]
Sponsored by NOBS Join NOBS as we welcome George Barnum, librarian and former Agency Historian at the Government Publishing Office (GPO). His presentation will focus on his 2017 book, Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1900-1980, which he describes as “a very lovingly assembled selection of photos that tell the […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM’s The Good Earth, this new Chinatown employed many of the same Chinese Americans who performed as background extras in the 1937 film. Chinatown and Hollywood represented the two […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these […]
Sponsored by FABS The Handpress-Era Zoom Group meets monthly for presentations and discussion of materials printed before 1800. All are welcome! June 8, 7:30-8:30pm EST: Jennifer Larson “The House of Elzevier's Tiniest Books.” Past FABS Chair Jennifer Larson presents a capsule history of the Elzeviers, one of the premier printing firms of the Dutch Golden […]