Sponsored by The Book Club of California. “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 […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. In the Middle Ages, monsters were of great interest to artists, authors, and theologians. They appear in all visual media and all textual […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. Horace Walpole wrote a letter in which he coined the word serendipity. The Royal and Ancient Gold Club of St Andrews got on course. A […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. This talk is based on the book Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream,” which delves into the social and cultural history of […]
Manuscript Monday - A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, March 16 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: Kenneth Cobb, Assistant Commissioner, New York City Department of Records […]
Sponsored by FABS Dear Friends in the Republic of Books, Living with Books is a discussion group of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. Each month, we choose a couple […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico's first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. What does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long, popular culture, from Hollywood Westerns to novels, music, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Oscar Wilde’s posthumous reputation. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-after-oscar-the-legacy-of-a-scandal-tickets-1978912426338?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. With some 400 members, the San Francisco-based California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth […]
Sponsored by FABS The 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 […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Guest Presenter: Lilla Vekerdy, Head of the Special Collections Department, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society A live presentation followed by […]