The Morgan Library From the Morgan’s three Gutenberg Bibles to the intricately carved cylinder seals of Ancient Mesopotamia, join our Morgan docents as they guide you on an up-close virtual exploration and discussion of one of the many works in the institution’s treasured permanent collection. Please note that the program will take place online. After […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, June 12, 2 p.m. Pacific Time Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Gary Goodman has been a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota for nearly forty years. In 1982, he wandered into a used-book shop in East St. Paul that was going out […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday June 13, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person event and Livestream on Zoom Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But […]
The Caxton Club is a proud co-sponsor of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is an annual prize of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The prize was co-founded by Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney. The contest is open to […]
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America The ABAA is now accepting entries for the 2022 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, where more than $6,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest is open to all prizewinners of college book-collecting contests, whether or not first prize, as well as to interested students […]
Submitted by The Caxton Club To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this most distinctive novel of the 20th century, catch up on the epic Centennial Readings of James Joyce's Ulysses sponsored by the Thornwillow Press. https://www.thornwillow.com/blog/bloomsyear-centennial-reading/
The Morgan Library Join Morgan Docents for an interactive visual tour of the exhibition One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses. Please note that the program will take place online. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. We ask that you download the app in advance for […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California June 20, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person exhibition opening and Livestream on Zoom Poets, scribes, and printers throughout history have taken advantage of the fact that poetry is both a visual and a verbal art. From the collection of the Book Club of […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Thursday, June 23rd, 7-8:30 pm This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses. Join Bill Kennedy, Irish music show host and former organizer of Nighttown’s Ulysses read-a-thon, which was held annually on Bloomsday (June 16), and NOBS to talk about one of the […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nick Fry will give an online lecture on "Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads." About this event Nicholas Fry, curator of "Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons," will speak on "Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads." His presentation will show the portrayal of railroad construction and workers in […]
“Fiddler on the Roof” on Stage and Screen: The Surprising Journey of a Great American Musical Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 6:00 – 7:00 pm EDT Speakers: Actors Rosalind Harris and Steven Skybell, and writer Michael Sragow; moderator Laurence Maslon, editor of LOA’s collection American Musicals Information and Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fiddler-on-the-roof-on-stage-and-screen-registration-365863797467?aff=eventspage Since 1964, “Fiddler on the […]
American Antiquarian Society “Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era” Thursday, June 30, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET Speaker: Author Sarah J. Purcell, Professor of History at Grinnell College, Iowa. Information and Registration: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book-talk-spectacle-grief-public-funerals-and-memory-civil-war-era Professor Purcell’s latest book examines how the public and often large-scale funerals of major figures […]