Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
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, […]
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After Oscar [Wilde]: The Legacy of a Scandal
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
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The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
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 […]
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FABS Handpress Era: Natural Philosophy Images from Manuscript to Print
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 […]
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Manuscript Mondays: Singing Books [Music Manuscript Bindings]
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 […]
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FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial and informal discussion of all things bibliophilic and nineteenth-century with your host Bill Bryson. Meets the third Thursday of the month. For a link […]
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FABS Bindings Zoom: “Singing Bindings” From the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian
Sponsored by FABS Join 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 […]
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Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. Though canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia, we are, once again, at a historical moment when there is resistance […]
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Ranger of the Lost Art – Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of our National Parks
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Doug Leen is a retired dentist and seasonal park ranger. He started his company, Ranger Doug's Enterprises in 1993, with a goal of […]
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FABS Living With Books: Book Cartoons and Jokes/Advice to Younger Bibliophiles
Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group hosted by Reid Byers for conversation about the joys and challenges of home libraries. This month's topics: 1. Book Cartoons and Jokes 2. […]
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The Irish Literary Renaissance
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Colm Tóibín Award winning Irish novelist and critic Colm Tóibín will trace the legacy of the Irish Literacy Renaissance through successive generations of Irish […]
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Adam Smyth on The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. May Midday Program From the aptly named Wynkyn de Worde to creators of Zines, Adam Smyth unspools the story of books by illuminating the lives […]