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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
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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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
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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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
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T202601Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T183000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T190000
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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
DTEND;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
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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:20260505T115547
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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:20260505T115547
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:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260324T023113Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T181500
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260428T032536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T032536Z
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SUMMARY:The Sunday Paper: A Media History
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe American Sunday paper of the 1890s transformed the daily edition with inserts and supplements of all shapes and sizes. Each asked readers to do more than read\, but to interact with the materiality of the paper as a form of leisure. The Sunday paper became so large and voluminous it needed to be organized: managed and collected over time\, shared across an entire family. Subscriptions enhanced the economic success of the Sunday paper by helping to produce expert reading subjects. Collecting series of supplements and clipping coupons encouraged readers not to treat Sunday papers as disposable\, but instead parts of cultural and consumer life that could gain value if saved. In illustrated features\, circulation became an ideal in its own right\, achieved through intermediality. Syndicated for national reach\, the Sunday paper was the basis for a mass mediated popular culture. Indeed\, the Sunday Paper became so reliant on the circulation of its popular supplements as to beg the question if it even remained a newspaper at all. \nA virtual presentation by Sandra Gabriele\, Vice President\, Academic and Provost\, Ontario College of Art & Design University\, Toronto\, Canada\, and Paul Moore\, Professor of Sociology\, Toronto Metropolitan University\, Toronto\, Canada and past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-sunday-paper-a-media-history/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T160000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T133910Z
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SUMMARY:Librarians and Artists on Jack Kerouac
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nRandy Gue\, Michael Inman\, Elizabeth Ott\, and Carolyn Vega \n\n\n\n\nA lively panel discussion with members of the NYPL’s Berg and Emory’s Rose Library\, which both hold substantial repositories of Jack Kerouac material. Carolyn Vega and Michael Inman from NYPL and Elizabeth Ott and Randy Gue from Emory all have a tremendous experience in archiving and working with Jack Kerouac material. Discussion will center on special considerations for preserving and utilizing such material and general experiences with it in the course of their work. \nREGISTER here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-symposium-panel-librarians-and-archivists-on-jack-kerouac-tickets-1982034239766?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nRandy Gue is Assistant Director of Collection Development at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript\, Archives\, and Rare Book Library\, Emory University. Gue founded the Atlanta Punk Studies Seminar in 2023\, and in his spare time\, he plays in the city’s only wordcore band: El Matador. He has donated a personal collection of punk-rock memorabilia to Emory’s library\, which created the seedbed of a new collection. His publications include “Modeling the History of the City” in Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. \nMichael Inman is The New York Public Library’s Susan Jaffe Tane Curator of Rare Books\, overseeing the collections of the Rare Book Division and the George Arents Collection of Tobacco and Books in Parts. In this capacity\, he is responsible for departmental acquisitions as well as for promoting the collections through programming\, classes\, and media appearances. He has also curated a number of exhibitions\, including Over Here: WWI and the Fight for the American Mind (2014)\, Walt Whitman: America’s Poet (2019)\, and Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village\, 1912–1923 (2024). Beyond NYPL\, Michael serves as a faculty member at Rare Book School\, where he teaches courses on the history of printing and special collections curatorship. He holds an MA in English from the University of North Texas and an MLS from Pratt Institute. \nElizabeth Ott is the director of The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript\, Archives\, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Ott has had previous roles in rare book libraries\, including at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her exhibitions include Lyric Impressions: Wordsworth in the Long Nineteenth Century which was presented at Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC Chapel Hill.Ott earned a PhD in English literature from the University of Virginia\, a master’s degree in Victorian media and culture from Royal Holloway\, University of London–Egham in the United Kingdom\, and a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Agnes Scott College. \nCarolyn Vega is the Curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library\, which holds the archives of Virginia Woolf\, Jack Kerouac\, and many others. She has organized a number of exhibitions\, including on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland\, Emily Dickinson\, Tennessee Williams\, the screenplays of James Ivory\, and authors who have drawn their inspiration from the collections of the New York Public Library. She holds an MSLIS from Pratt Institute. \n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/librarians-and-artists-on-jack-kerouac/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T134209Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Jack Kerouac
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nAnn Charters\, Holly George-Warren\, Joyce Johnson\, and Regina Weinreich \n\n\n\n\nKerouac scholars Ann Charters\, Joyce Johnson\, Holly George-Warren\, and Regina Weinreich will discuss their experiences with\, and thoughts on\, Jack Kerouac. \nThe four panel members are all noted Kerouac scholars and biographers. Ann Charters and Joyce Johnson knew Kerouac personally and wrote about him. Holly George-Warren is doing a new\, comprehensive biography to be released soon\, while Regina Weinreich has published several works on him\, notably his book of haikus. The four will discuss their varying experiences with and/or perspectives on Kerouac\, his life\, and his work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-symposium-panel-noted-kerouac-scholars-and-biographers-tickets-1982035859611?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nAnn Charters was Kerouac’s first biographer\, and the only biographer to interview him about his work. She published the seminal work Kerouac: A Biography and Kerouac’s first comprehensive bibliography. She is Professor Emerita of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. \nIn Joyce Johnson’s book Minor Characters\, she wrote about growing up in the 1950’s\, during a challenging period for women\, and her love affair with Jack Kerouac. In 1983 it won a National Book Critics Circle Award and more recently was cited by The New York Times as one of the best memoirs of the 20th century. Her Kerouac biography\, The Voice Is All\, came out in 2012. Her six other books include three novels and a second memoir. Johnson’s work has also appeared in The New York Review\, Vanity Fair\, and The New Yorker. During her long career as an editor\, she was responsible for the posthumous publication of Kerouac’s Vision of Cody. \nHolly George-Warren is the award-winning author of 20 books and has contributed to numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Fine Books & Collections\, and the Times Literary Supplement\, among others. She is currently writing the estate-sanctioned biography\, Jack Kerouac: A Writer’s Life\, to be published by Viking Press. \nRegina Weinreich\, a filmmaker and widely published culture critic\, is the author of Kerouac’s Spontaneous Poetics (1987)\, one of the earliest full-scale critical studies of Jack Kerouac’s literary work. She edited and compiled Kerouac’s Book of Haikus and wrote the introduction to his You’re a Genius All the Time. On the faculty of the Department of Humanities & Sciences at The School of Visual Arts since 1976\, she teaches courses in Beat literature and aesthetics \n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/symposium-on-jack-kerouac/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260428T031208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T031208Z
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SUMMARY:Chelsea Foxwell and Brooklyn Zhao on Fact and Fiction: Picturing the News in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of Anthony J. Mourek
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Evening Program \n \n  \nJapanese color prints and woodblock-printed books are beloved as works of art and literature. Less attention has been paid to those woodblock-printed images of the Meiji era (1868–1912) which purported to depict the news\, especially events of the First Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) Wars. This presentation draws on works from the Anthony J. Mourek Collection now in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center\, University of Chicago to understand how this traditional medium combined fact and fiction to express Japan’s new identity as a modern nation. \nChelsea Foxwell\, Professor of Art History\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and the College Director\, Center for East Asian Studies\, University of Chicago. \nBrooklyn Zhao\, Undergraduate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, University of Chicago. \nRegister today\, here. \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/chelsea-foxwell-and-brooklyn-zhao-on-fact-and-fiction-picturing-the-news-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-from-the-collection-of-anthony-j-mourek/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260324T181005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T181030Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T141243Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom: Ebay and Catawiki Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThis month we try out a new discussion format with the topic “Ebay and Catawiki: The Good\, The Bad and the Ugly.” We’ll discuss the pros and cons of these online auction platforms for collectors of Handpress Era materials. If you use them\, what are your search strategies? Have you ever regretted a purchase\, and/or have you discovered a great bargain? Along the way\, we hope you’ll show your items acquired on Ebay or Catawiki (5-minute limit\, please). \nTo join the mailing list and receive links\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-ebay-and-catawiki-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T191500
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260428T033022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T033221Z
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SUMMARY:Larry McMurtry’s Runaways: The Story of Larry McMurtry’s Collection of Books by Women Travelers
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 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 it became an infatuation that\, along with writing\, would consume and change his life. \nAmong the many books McMurtry acquired during his San Francisco residency for his personal reading and eventual book business were books by women travelers\, a topic which he found captivating for their true tales of travel to distant lands by strong-willed\, independent women. \nSlowly he assembled a personal collection of books by and about women travelers. After 50 years the collection grew to almost 2000 volumes and contained 320 years of travel narratives\, from 1690 to 2010. This is the story of the collection\, what happened to it\, and the women travelers who made it so captivating – women whom McMurtry occasionally referred to as his “runaways.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by John Crichton\, author\, editor\, antiquarian bookseller\, and proprietor of The Brick Row Book Shop\, San Francisco\, California. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/larry-mcmurtrys-runaways-the-story-of-larry-mcmurtrys-collection-of-books-by-women-travelers/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T134459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T134459Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors. \n\n\n\n\nPaul 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 well as their own work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-program-poetry-reading-tickets-1982037352075?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nPaul Muldoon was born in 1951 in Portadown\, County Armagh\, and was raised near The Moy\, in Northern Ireland. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farm laborer and market gardener. He is the author of a number of poetry collections\, including New Weather (1973)\, Why Brownlee Left (1980)\, Quoof (1983)\, Meeting the British (1987)\, New Selected Poems: 1968-1994 (1996)\, Hay (1998)\, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, Horse Latitudes (2006)\, and most recently One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015)\, Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016)\, and Frolic and Detour (2019). He has also published collections of criticism\, children’s books\, opera libretti\, song lyrics\, and works for radio and television. \nKevin Young is the author of many books of poetry\, including Night Watch (2025)\, Stones (2021)\, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Brown (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015; and Book of Hours (2014)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Three of Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001)\, which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jelly Roll (2003)\, a collection of blues poems; and Black Maria (2005)\, a film noir. His first book of poetry\, Most Way Home (1995)\, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucille Clifton\, who described the collection as re-creating “an inner history which is compelling and authentic and American.” Young’s other collections of poetry include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011)\, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award; Dear Darkness (2008); and For the Confederate Dead (2007)\, winner of the Quill Award in Poetry and the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Excellence. \nYoung was born in Lincoln\, Nebraska. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard\, he became a member of the Dark Room Collective\, a community of African American writers. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/paul-muldoon-and-kevin-young-poetry-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260503T131947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T132011Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group: Suzanne Glemot on Bookbinding Models
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nBookbinding 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 (BMC) at the University of Iowa is a world-class collection of over 400 items housed in the Libraries’ Conservation Lab. \nDiscover the BMC’s robust array of historical bookbinding models and learn how this unique collection supports the learning and research of conservators\, scholars\, librarians\, artists\, and bookbinders at the University of Iowa and beyond. \nTo join the mailing list and receive links please contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-suzanne-glemot-on-bookbinding-models/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T141748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T141748Z
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin 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).
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T134745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T134745Z
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SUMMARY:The Irish Literary Revival: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith R. F. Foster\, Belinda McKeon\, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica \n\n\n\n\nR. 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\, the panel will explore how literature helped imagine\, energize\, and complicate ideas of Irish nationhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nLively\, thoughtful\, and accessible\, the conversation promises to illuminate Risings not only as a landmark exhibition about a formative period\, but also as a lens through which to think afresh about the enduring power of literature in moments of national transformation. \n\n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-the-irish-literary-revival-then-and-now-tickets-1986553498992?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-irish-literary-revival-then-and-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T141538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T141538Z
UID:3228-1779822000-1779827400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin your host Reid Byers (author of The Private Library) and the gang for discussion of the joys and challenges of the home library. \nTo join the mailing list and receive a link\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-10/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T115547
CREATED:20260427T135020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T135020Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters\, In Print
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nLecture with Carla Kaplan \n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed 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 one another. Jessica had escaped a cosseted childhood in a Cotswold manor to become a California-based Communist and then muckraker. With her 1960 memoir—fond\, funny\, and often teasing of her equally celebrated (or notorious) relatives—she hoped to come closer to the family she’d left behind. But instead\, the book\, which was lauded and sold well in the U.K. and America\, worsened the rifts. This talk will shed light on what the sisters wrote and published\, with different lenses on their upbringing\, as well as their libraries and Kaplan’s own book collection\, which includes Mitford’s rare mimeographed books and archival documentation of wranglings with publishers. Kaplan will be in conversation with Mitford’s daughter Constancia Romilly. \nREGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true-tickets-1982039480441?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nCarla Kaplan\, author of Troublemaker\, is a professor of English\, African-American and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature. She contributes to publications including The New York Times\, and among her award-winning books are Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance and a biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Kaplan founded the Northeastern Humanities Center and has been a resident fellow at institutions including New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Harvard University’s Houghton Library and W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute; University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center; Yale University’s Beinecke Library; Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Ohio State University\, and Smith College. \n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print/
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