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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/Los_Angeles:20260601T180000
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SUMMARY:Performing Chinatown: Hollywood\, Tourism\, and the Making of a Chinese American Community
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 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 primary sites where Chinese Americans performed racial difference for popular audiences during the Chinese exclusion era. In Performing Chinatown\, historian William Gow argues that Chinese Americans in Los Angeles used these performances in Hollywood films and in Chinatown for tourists to shape widely held understandings of race and national belonging during this pivotal chapter in U.S. history. \nPerforming Chinatown conceives of these racial representations as intimately connected to the restrictive immigration laws that limited Chinese entry into the U.S. beginning with the 1875 Page Act and continuing until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. At the heart of this argument are the voices of everyday people including Chinese American movie extras\, street performers\, and merchants. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by William Gow\, historian\, educator\, documentary filmmaker\, and Assistant Professor\, Ethnic Studies Department\, Sacramento State University\, Sacramento\, California. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/performing-chinatown-hollywood-tourism-and-the-making-of-a-chinese-american-community/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:Tomorrow is Another Day: Bestselling Novels of the Great Depression Era
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nAs 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 values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era’s most popular newspaper stories\, magazines\, and books\, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping\, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games\, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines\, Superman’s evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people\, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries\, Gone with the Wind\, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings\, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear. \nA virtual presentation by David Welky\, author and Associate Professor of History\, University of Central Arkansas\, Conway \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/tomorrow-is-another-day-bestselling-novels-of-the-great-depression-era/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ in Print: Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith Charlotte Priddle\, Dr. Miranda Garno Rossa\, Elyssa Maxx Goodman\, & Chris Hammer \n\n\n\n\nHow have members of the LGBTQ+ community\, throughout centuries\, left record on the printed or handwritten page\, or glaring absences? Where do we look today for their traces\, and what are best practices for interpretation? A panel of experts including Charlotte Priddle\, Director of NYU Special Collections; librarian/book dealer/scholar Gwendolyn Reese; Dr. Miranda Garno Rossa\, proprietor of Marginalia Rare Books in California; and Elyssa Maxx Goodman\, author of Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City (and a contributor to including The New York Times\, Vogue\, and Vanity Fair) will explore how they identify\, place\, and preserve the physical materials that foster research and publications in this realm. The program will be moderated by Chris Hammer\, Grolier Club member\, historian\, archivist\, and scholar of 1950s-’90s queer literature. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-lgbtq-in-print-tickets-1982040042121?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lgbtq-in-print-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T120000
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SUMMARY:Julie Tanaka on Is This a Book? The University of Washington Library’s Book Arts Collection
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club \nJune Midday Program \n \nYoung Lochinvar is come out of the west … which is great\, because that leaves plenty of room for us to head to Seattle to enjoy a virtual visit to the University of Washington’s superb book arts collection\, which includes historical and modern pieces encompassing all aspects of the physical book. \nWhether you’re a fan of typography\, paper making\, letterpress and offset printing\, illustration\, book design\, paper decoration\, calligraphy\, sculptural and conceptional work\, or artist’s books\, you’ll find them on the shores of Union and Portage Bays. \nWe’ll be going behind the scenes\, thanks to the good offices of Julie Tanaka\, Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections at the UW Library. As a special treat for Caxtonians\, her generously illustrated talk will reveal highlights of the collection and give attendees a first look at the library’s latest acquisitions. It’s like being first on the red carpet on opening night! \nJoin the pack and run with the big dogs to what promises to be a howling good time. Register today for this unique Zoom only program! To register\, click 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/julie-tanaka-on-is-this-a-book-the-university-of-washington-librarys-book-arts-collection/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T080000
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SUMMARY:Charles W. Chesnutt: Symposium (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Western Reserve Historical Society\, The Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society\, The Rowfant Club\, Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive\, The Cuyahoga County Public Library\, and the Cleveland Public Library. \nThe Second Charles W. Chesnutt Symposium [In Person Only] \nSaturday\, September 26\, 2026  \n8:00 AM through 5:30 PM \nAt the Western Reserve Historical Society\, Cleveland\, Ohio  \nRegistration Fee: $80.00 for standard participants and $50.00 for full time students \nFully Refundable Date: August 15\, 2026 \nhttps://www.chesnutt2026.com or www.rowfant.org \nCharles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was arguably the most important African American author (fiction\, essays and advocacy) to ply his trade in America between Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance; he was certainly the most important author to come from Ohio during this period\, and his influence was clearly national. It is also important to note that several of his novels were not published until 50 years after his death\, largely because they were considered too provocative for their time.  \nFeaturing presentations by: \nStephanie Browner\, PhD: The New School  \nTess Chakkalakal\, PhD: Bowdoin College  \nCharles Duncan\, PhD: William Peace University  \nWilliam Hardwig\, PhD: University of Tennessee Knoxville  \nKenneth M. Price\, PhD: University of Nebraska Lincoln  \nRegennia Williams\, PhD: Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland  \nThere will also be opportunities to see the Rowfant Club of Cleveland\, take a white-glove tour of the Chesnutt archives\, and interact with the Cleveland community. Continental breakfast and a full buffet luncheon will be served; local accommodation will be available near the Case Western Reserve University campus\, including the Glidden House. \nCosponsors: The Western Reserve Historical Society\, The Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society\, Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive\, The Cuyahoga County Public Library\, and the Cleveland Public Library. \nhttps://chesnuttarchive.org/ \nQuestions? email cuw123@aol.com  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/charles-w-chesnutt-symposium-in-person/
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