Co-sponsored by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, The Field Museum; this notice brought to you by The Caxton Club When/Where: 5/16/2024 2:00–5:30PM CT The hybrid event is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required for in-person and virtual attendance via BHL website. EVENT DETAILS: In conjunction with the 2024 Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) […]
Sponsored by FABS May 16 (third Thursday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The 19th Century special interest group, co-hosted by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley, offers "a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals.” The format is informal discussion. To join the list for […]
Sponsored by FABS May 20, 4:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm EST Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a presentation and discussion with Erin Fletcher, design binder and proprietor of Herringbone Bindery, on Contemporary Embroidered Bindings. To join the list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS May 28 (fourth Tuesday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: Living With Books: Hosted by The Private Library author Reid Byers, this is a group on the pleasures and paraphernalia of home libraries. The format for the May meeting will be an open discussion about reading places (where do YOU read?) and […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy, 1836-1932 Monday, June 10, 2024, 5-6:15 PM (Pacific) Virtual Presentation 5:00 PM Pacific – Program Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She used her fortune to […]
Sponsored by FABS June 10, 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”). This month you'll hear from both our co-hosts. To join the list contact info@fabsocieties.org. David DiLaura: "Goethean vs Newtonian Color Theories: Communicating Perception using Hand Coloring." Goethe's 20-year argument with the Newtonian […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Julie Park on Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage When/Where: 6/14/2024 12:00 PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. ULCC live attendance – Zoom presentation and optional lunch ($35) following. Reservations required […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club The smartphone is beginning to supersede the pocket diary, but in the 18th century, people carried tiny manuscripts preserving not only dates and addresses, but windows into their lives and personalities. Join Julie Park for "Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage" […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Amy Gore brings mainstream narratives about the history of the book into conversation with Indigenous book history, considering among others John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854), the first novel published in the state of California and the first novel published by a Native […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as Jack Lynch, co-curator with fellow Grolierite Bryan A. Garner, of our "Hardly Harmless Drudgery" public exhibition will lecture on "The Frontiers of Anglicity: What's In, What's Out?" The "Hardly Harmless Drudgery" exhibition displays landmarks in English lexicography and runs in The Grolier Club ground-floor Exhibition Hall through July 27, […]
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century! Meets on the third Thursday of the month. Contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as Translator Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky, Yiddish Book Center founder and president, have a conversation to celebrate the release of a translation of writings by the poet, translator and literary journalist S. L. Shneiderman (1906-1996), Journey Through the Spanish Civil War: The Hinterlands (White Goat Press). Note: this is […]