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SUMMARY:Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \n“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 J. Leuner will discuss both Mary’s innovative Austen exhibition\, hosted at the Grolier Club in December 2025\, and will lead attendees on a guided tour through the British Library’s first edition facsimile of Jane Austen’s famed Pride & Prejudice (1813)\, issued by Rizzoli USA. The deluxe facsimile edition of Pride & Prejudice includes not only the text separated into its originally distributed multiple volumes\, but also contains key archival documents connected to the text and Austen’s life from the British Library’s collections. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Mary Crawford\, collector\, curator\, trustee of The Grolier Club and the Bibliographical Society of America and Kirstyn J. Leuner\, Associate Professor of eighteenth-century British Literature\, Santa Clara University and Director of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing \n**Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for The British Library. \nTo register for the virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/presenting-jane-showing-and-sharing-jane-austen-in-the-21st-century/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T180000
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SUMMARY:Wonders of the East: Medieval Belief and Making Monsters in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nIn 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 known as the Wonders of the East\, a series of fantastic peoples\, beasts\, plants\, and landscapes that was especially popular in medieval England\, where they appear on the edges of world maps and in the margins of devotional books\, as well as in three surviving manuscripts\, all heavily illustrated\, where they are given pride of place. This talk will consider where such monsters were located\, how they were constructed\, and what sort of work they were designed to do for their intended audiences. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Asa Mittman\, author and Professor of Art & Art History\, California State University\, Chico. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/wonders-of-the-east-medieval-belief-and-making-monsters-in-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260313T130000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Margolis on History and Highlights of the Collection of Jewish Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nHorace Walpole wrote a letter in which he coined the word serendipity. \nThe Royal and Ancient Gold Club of St Andrews got on course. \nA 22-year-old George Washington leads an ambush that triggers the French and Indian War. \nLouis XVI is born. \nWhat will become Columbia University is chartered in New York. \nThe year is 1754 and the Columbia library begins – right from the beginning – to collect rare Hebraica and Judaica materials. \nToday that collection has grown to include an amazing array of manuscripts\, incunabula\, sixteenth-century books\, and much\, much more. \nMichelle Margolis\, Lecturer in History and Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies\, will give us a rare glimpse of the collection’s treasures\, as she shares its story and illuminates its highlights. Her generously illustrated talk will reveal materials of great beauty\, historical importance\, and scholarship. \nAs the great ad campaign from the 1960s reminded us\, you don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish Rye … or to enjoy seeing a remarkable collection of Jewish books and documents. Step up to the counter and register for this Zoom only program today! \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/michelle-margolis-on-history-and-highlights-of-the-collection-of-jewish-books-and-manuscripts-at-columbia-university/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T183000
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SUMMARY:Koreatown Los Angeles: Immigration\, Race\, and the “American Dream”
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nThis 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 Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean immigrants and US-born Koreans\, serving simultaneously as a vital economic base and a profound emotional and social anchor. It will examine how figures defined as “place entrepreneurs\,” such as Sonia Suk and Hi Duk Lee\, spearheaded the community’s development from a modest cluster of businesses into a thriving\, recognized enclave. Their entrepreneurial achievements\, lauded in publications as proof that the “American Dream is Alive and Well in Koreatown\,” underscored the irony of success achieved during an era of diminishing opportunities for others. \nA virtual presentation by Shelley Lee\, author and W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of American Studies\, History\, and Humanities\, Brown University. \nTo register for this online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/koreatown-los-angeles-immigration-race-and-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: NYC Municipal Archives
DESCRIPTION:Manuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, March 16 @ 8pm EST\nGuest Presenter: Kenneth Cobb\, Assistant Commissioner\, New York City Department of Records & Information Services\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society\nA live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Kenneth Cobb \nTitle: \nThe New York City Municipal Archives \nOverview: \nNew York City bureaucrats have been creating records that document its government since the first Dutch settlers established a colony here in 1624. The records now total more than 250\,000 cubic feet and are preserved in the Municipal Archives\, one of the largest archival repositories in North America. Mr. Cobb will present an illustrated review of the holdings which include manuscripts\, photographs\, ledgers\, maps\, and plans from numerous municipal departments and functions such as the mayor\, courts\, police\, health\, parks\, finance and education. \nRegister: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8esv2eBzRSyMF7U50mW32g\nPresenter: \nKenneth R. Cobb has been associated with the Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) for more than 46 years. Cobb served as Director of the Municipal Archives from 1990 to 2005 when he was appointed Assistant Commissioner at DORIS. Cobb received an M.A. in American History at Columbia University in 1978. \nIn 2018 he received the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York outstanding Archival Achievement award\, and in 2023 he won a Sloan Public Service Award. Cobb is a native of Poughkeepsie\, New York.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: "Oops" Moments and Physical vs. Electronic Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nDear Friends in the Republic of Books\, \nLiving with Books is a discussion group of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies.\nEach month\, we choose a couple of bibliophilic topics for open (and civil) discussion. \nThe next meeting of FABS Living with Books will be on Tuesday\, Mar 24\, 7:00 EDT\nThe topics for discussion will be: \n1.Oops!\nMistakes we have made collecting or buying books.\nWhat were your best goofs? \n2. Electronic Reading vs. Physical Books\nWhich do you prefer? How do you balance? What helps? \nPlease join us if you think you might find such a discussions interesting. \nWith best regards\,\nReid \nFor a link please contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-oops-moments-and-physical-vs-electronic-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T183000
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SUMMARY:Mexico City's Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\nWith Luis Fernando Bañuelos\n\n\n\nNYU 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\, dictionaries\, literary magazines\, titles by popular romance authors and those of Alexander von Humboldt and John Steinbeck\, as well as coffee\, plus paintings by renowned artists. The enigmatic\, contradictory store was a monumental palace for Mexico’s lettered elites\, an extravagant attempt to bring mass commercial culture to print matter in a semi-illiterate country\, an attempt to democratize knowledge and culture by making them accessible to all social classes\, the remnant of an obsolete\, pre-industrial belletristic culture… The lecture will explore the store’s cultural history through publications\, films\, first-hand testimonies\, photographs\, and advertising. In a post-revolutionary\, developing country such as Mexico\, what happens to print culture in general\, and literature in particular\, what do they gain or lose\, when entangled with commercial culture? \nLuis Fernando Bañuelos is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. His research interests include print culture\, book history\, sociology of literature and publishing\, and the history of literary criticism. His dissertation explores Mexican literature from the 1920s to the 1970s in relation to the publishing industry’s rise. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-mexico-citys-avant-garde-libreria-de-cristal-bookstore-tickets-1978438930098?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/mexico-citys-avant-garde-libreria-de-cristal-bookstore/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T170000
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SUMMARY:Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nWhat 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 in Popular Culture brings those histories back into focus. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Sara L. Gallagher explores how Black writers\, filmmakers\, and performers have reimagined the Western landscape in ways that challenge dominant myths about race\, land\, and belonging. Moving across literature\, film\, and music\, she examines how figures ranging from Oscar Micheaux to contemporary creators like Beyonce have reshaped what we think the “West” looks like\, sounds like\, and means. \nThe “Black West” is more than a geographic space\, it is a cultural and imaginative terrain that reveals hidden histories of migration\, labor\, homesteading\, and community-building. At the same time\, it offers new perspectives on familiar genres\, from the Western film to the jazz archive. This presentation will highlight how Black artists and thinkers have unsettled the frontier myth\, opening up conversations about power\, resistance\, and the legacies of race in American culture. \nA virtual presentation by Sarah Gallagher\, author and Professor of Liberal Studies\, Durham College\, Oshawa\, Ontario\, Canada. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/black-wests-reshaping-race-and-place-in-popular-culture/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T190000
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SUMMARY:After Oscar [Wilde]: The Legacy of a Scandal
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nMerlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker\, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Oscar Wilde’s posthumous reputation. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-after-oscar-the-legacy-of-a-scandal-tickets-1978912426338?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/after-oscar-wilde-the-legacy-of-a-scandal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T180000
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SUMMARY:The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California. \nWith some 400 members\, the San Francisco-based California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In her book The California Camera Club\, Carolin Görgen recaptures the lost history of this community—both women and men—and their crucial contribution to shaping the cultural imagination of California and the American West as a photographic territory. \nAlthough the club played a decisive role in advancing the careers of Ansel Adams and other “big names” of American photography\, its most significant legacy lies in fostering collaborative outdoor practices. In telling the story of these largely unknown photographers\, a new perspective on American photography and its collective dimension is revealed. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Carolin Görgen\, author and Associate Professor of American Studies\, Sorbonne Université\, Paris. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-california-camera-club-collective-visions-in-the-making-of-the-american-west/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era: Natural Philosophy Images from Manuscript to Print
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month for presentations and discussion of printed materials before 1800. This month noted optics collector David DiLaura will speak on the transition from manuscript to print of illustrations dealing with geometry and natural philosophy\, using examples from his collection. All are welcome. \n“Images in natural philosophy books: From manuscripts to printing”\nImages were an essential aspect of geometry and natural philosophy books in the manuscript era. They were not ornament; for in many cases the text could not be understood without them. In the transition to printing\, technical images posed new problems for printers. Images varied from manuscript to manuscript. The details needed to be correct and\, in many cases\, could be judged only if the text was understood. A compositor\, however skillful\, was not enough. Woodcuts were necessary\, adding cost\, uncertainty\, and dependence on external craftsmen. In some cases\, the image tradition was degraded until the widespread use of copper plate etchings in the mid 16th century. \nFor a link and to be added to the mailing list for this group\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-dilaura-on-illustrations-from-manuscript-to-print/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: Singing Books [Music Manuscript Bindings]
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nGuest Presenter: Lilla Vekerdy\, Head of the Special Collections Department\, Smithsonian Institution Libraries\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society\nA live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Lilla Vekerdy Title: How Can Book Bindings Sing?\nPresentation Description:\nHow Can Book Bindings Sing? will examine Renaissance books bound in fragments of medieval music manuscripts. These “singing bindings” are hundreds of years older than the printed text blocks inside them\, and the texts are on mathematics\, physics\, or astronomy and absolutely not on music. How is that possible?\nLilla Vekerdy\, Head & Curator of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives\, will shed light on the peculiarities of these unique volumes\, held in the rare book collection of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.\nBiography:\nLilla Vekerdy has been the head of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives since 2008\, where she oversees rare materials in 16 library research centers\, and also serves as the curator of Physical Sciences Rare Books in The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. She earned Master’s degrees in Literature & Linguistics as well as in Library Sciences in Budapest\, Hungary in 1984\, and completed her doctoral coursework in Medieval and Renaissance History at Saint Louis University in St. Louis\, Missouri in 2005. Her research interest and publications are in the history of science and medicine\, as well as in rare book and manuscript studies\, and often cover the overlay of both realms. \nRegister here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GGFhG_DcTvCQW6u4hSV1eg
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-singing-books-music-manuscript-bindings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T234059
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin this congenial and informal discussion of all things bibliophilic and nineteenth-century with your host Bill Bryson. Meets the third Thursday of the month. \nFor a link to this month’s meeting\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-18/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T163000
DTSTAMP:20260414T234059
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: "Singing Bindings" From the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin Lilla Vekerdy\, Head & Curator of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives\, to view and hear about the “Singing Bindings” of The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. These unique bindings feature fragments of medieval music manuscripts as covers of Renaissance books. Working with them\, has revealed many fascinating discoveries regarding both book-binding and music. \nThe zoom program will take place on April 20 at 4:30 PM Pacific Time. It is free to attend. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org) for a link.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-singing-bindings-from-the-dibner-library-at-the-smithsonian/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T181500
DTSTAMP:20260414T234059
CREATED:20260324T024215Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies\, Digital Humanities\, and the Canon
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California. \nThough canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia\, we are\, once again\, at a historical moment when there is resistance to teaching texts by writers of color and texts that deal with race\, ethnicity and gender. At the same time\, algorithmic bias scholars are locating systemic bias encoded into systems from policing software to housing software. Bringing these divergent areas together\, Amy E. Earhart examines how technological and institutional infrastructures construct and deconstruct race\, ethnicity and gender identities. \nFocusing on two central infrastructures\, the database\, a commonly used technological infrastructure in the digital humanities\, and the anthology\, a scholarly and pedagogical infrastructure\, Earhart considers how such seemingly naturalized infrastructures impact the representation and modeling of identity. The Digital Literary Redlining draws upon the building and use of DALA\, a collection of almost 100 years of generalist American and African American literature anthologies\, constructed to investigate questions of identity and representation in literary anthologies and\, by extension\, the larger literary canon. The resulting examination\, and its rigorous discussion of how identities are created and recreated within Black literary histories\, has important implications for contemporary cultural and political debates about canon formation\, literary scholarship\, and the bias embedded in technological infrastructures. \nA virtual presentation by Amy E. Earhart\, author and Associate Professor\, Department of English\, Texas A&M University. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/digital-literary-redlining-african-american-anthologies-digital-humanities-and-the-canon/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T153000
DTSTAMP:20260414T234059
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SUMMARY:Ranger of the Lost Art - Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of our National Parks
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nDoug Leen is a retired dentist and seasonal park ranger. He started his company\, Ranger Doug’s Enterprises in 1993\, with a goal of bringing back into print the striking posters created by the WPA in the 1930s and 40s. \nWatch the Book Club of Washington events page for an opportunity to register for the online portion of this event.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/ranger-of-the-lost-art-rediscovering-the-wpa-poster-art-of-our-national-parks/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of Washington
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: Book Cartoons and Jokes/Advice to Younger Bibliophiles
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin this congenial group hosted by Reid Byers for conversation about the joys and challenges of home libraries. This month’s topics: \n\n1. Book Cartoons and Jokes\n\n2. What Advice might you offer to  younger bibliophiles from your experience as a book collector?\n\nTo receive a link\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-book-cartoons-and-jokes-advice-to-younger-bibliophiles/
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SUMMARY:The Irish Literary Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith Colm Tóibín \n\n\n\n\nAward winning Irish novelist and critic Colm Tóibín will trace the legacy of the Irish Literacy Renaissance through successive generations of Irish writers. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-irish-literary-renaissance-tickets-1981942212510?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-irish-literary-renaissance/
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SUMMARY:Adam Smyth on The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nMay Midday Program \n \nFrom the aptly named Wynkyn de Worde to creators of Zines\, Adam Smyth unspools the story of books by illuminating the lives of eighteen fascinating characters. Entertaining\, enlightening\, engaging\, and alliterative\, his book puts a fresh perspective on some familiar names while introducing others you may not be familiar with. \nDid Benjamin Franklin eat paper in order to increase the amount of fiber in his diet? Did William Wildgoose lead a campaign to outlaw quill pens out of deference to his namesake? While those intriguing questions aren’t actually addressed in Smyth’s terrific book\, he does use the broadest range of historical sources to revive and describe the sounds\, the smells\, and the atmosphere of the development of printing to reveal new perspectives on even the most well-trodden ground. \nSmyth is a professor of English literature and the history of the book at Oxford’s Balliol College. He may seem familiar to regular midday program viewers\, because other speakers have quoted him in their talks and because he is much in demand as a lecturer and learned guest in programs available online. \nMake a little history of your own and register for the May Midday today – click here!
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/adam-smyth-on-the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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SUMMARY:Tim White on Cookbook Author Isabella Beeton
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Collectors’ Society of Australia \nJune 13: Book Collectors’ Society of Australia – Meeting on Saturday 13 June 2026 at 2PM Sydney time (10 pm Friday 12 June\, New York time). Tim White presents “Meet Mrs. Beeton.” \nTim White from Books for Cooks (https://www.booksforcooks.com.au) will speak about Mrs Isabella Beeton\, author of The Book of Household Management that was one of the most significant and commercially successful British cookery books of the 19th century. The talk will explore her personal history and her contributions to cookery book publishing in Victorian Britain and the British Empire. We will be holding an in-person meeting at Sydney University as well as a ZOOM meeting.  Please email hjgoldsmith@bigpond.com for the link to the meeting if you would like to join.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/tim-white-on-cookbook-author-isabella-beeton/
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