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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: "Singing Bindings" From the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin 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 of the History of Science and Technology. These unique bindings feature fragments of medieval music manuscripts as covers of Renaissance books. Working with them\, has revealed many fascinating discoveries regarding both book-binding and music. \nThe zoom program will take place on April 20 at 4:30 PM Pacific Time. It is free to attend. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org) for a link.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-singing-bindings-from-the-dibner-library-at-the-smithsonian/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T170000
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SUMMARY:Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies\, Digital Humanities\, and the Canon
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California. \nThough canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia\, we are\, once again\, at a historical moment when there is resistance to teaching texts by writers of color and texts that deal with race\, ethnicity and gender. At the same time\, algorithmic bias scholars are locating systemic bias encoded into systems from policing software to housing software. Bringing these divergent areas together\, Amy E. Earhart examines how technological and institutional infrastructures construct and deconstruct race\, ethnicity and gender identities. \nFocusing on two central infrastructures\, the database\, a commonly used technological infrastructure in the digital humanities\, and the anthology\, a scholarly and pedagogical infrastructure\, Earhart considers how such seemingly naturalized infrastructures impact the representation and modeling of identity. The Digital Literary Redlining draws upon the building and use of DALA\, a collection of almost 100 years of generalist American and African American literature anthologies\, constructed to investigate questions of identity and representation in literary anthologies and\, by extension\, the larger literary canon. The resulting examination\, and its rigorous discussion of how identities are created and recreated within Black literary histories\, has important implications for contemporary cultural and political debates about canon formation\, literary scholarship\, and the bias embedded in technological infrastructures. \nA virtual presentation by Amy E. Earhart\, author and Associate Professor\, Department of English\, Texas A&M University. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/digital-literary-redlining-african-american-anthologies-digital-humanities-and-the-canon/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T153000
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SUMMARY:Ranger of the Lost Art - Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of our National Parks
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nDoug Leen is a retired dentist and seasonal park ranger. He started his company\, Ranger Doug’s Enterprises in 1993\, with a goal of bringing back into print the striking posters created by the WPA in the 1930s and 40s. \nWatch the Book Club of Washington events page for an opportunity to register for the online portion of this event.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/ranger-of-the-lost-art-rediscovering-the-wpa-poster-art-of-our-national-parks/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of Washington
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: Book Cartoons and Jokes/Advice to Younger Bibliophiles
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin this congenial group hosted by Reid Byers for conversation about the joys and challenges of home libraries. This month’s topics: \n\n1. Book Cartoons and Jokes\n\n2. What Advice might you offer to  younger bibliophiles from your experience as a book collector?\n\nTo receive a link\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-book-cartoons-and-jokes-advice-to-younger-bibliophiles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T181500
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SUMMARY:The Sunday Paper: A Media History
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe American Sunday paper of the 1890s transformed the daily edition with inserts and supplements of all shapes and sizes. Each asked readers to do more than read\, but to interact with the materiality of the paper as a form of leisure. The Sunday paper became so large and voluminous it needed to be organized: managed and collected over time\, shared across an entire family. Subscriptions enhanced the economic success of the Sunday paper by helping to produce expert reading subjects. Collecting series of supplements and clipping coupons encouraged readers not to treat Sunday papers as disposable\, but instead parts of cultural and consumer life that could gain value if saved. In illustrated features\, circulation became an ideal in its own right\, achieved through intermediality. Syndicated for national reach\, the Sunday paper was the basis for a mass mediated popular culture. Indeed\, the Sunday Paper became so reliant on the circulation of its popular supplements as to beg the question if it even remained a newspaper at all. \nA virtual presentation by Sandra Gabriele\, Vice President\, Academic and Provost\, Ontario College of Art & Design University\, Toronto\, Canada\, and Paul Moore\, Professor of Sociology\, Toronto Metropolitan University\, Toronto\, Canada and past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-sunday-paper-a-media-history/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T193000
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SUMMARY:The Irish Literary Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith Colm Tóibín \n\n\n\n\nAward winning Irish novelist and critic Colm Tóibín will trace the legacy of the Irish Literacy Renaissance through successive generations of Irish writers. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-irish-literary-renaissance-tickets-1981942212510?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-irish-literary-renaissance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T160000
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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/New_York:20260506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Jack Kerouac
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nAnn Charters\, Holly George-Warren\, Joyce Johnson\, and Regina Weinreich \n\n\n\n\nKerouac scholars Ann Charters\, Joyce Johnson\, Holly George-Warren\, and Regina Weinreich will discuss their experiences with\, and thoughts on\, Jack Kerouac. \nThe four panel members are all noted Kerouac scholars and biographers. Ann Charters and Joyce Johnson knew Kerouac personally and wrote about him. Holly George-Warren is doing a new\, comprehensive biography to be released soon\, while Regina Weinreich has published several works on him\, notably his book of haikus. The four will discuss their varying experiences with and/or perspectives on Kerouac\, his life\, and his work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-symposium-panel-noted-kerouac-scholars-and-biographers-tickets-1982035859611?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nAnn Charters was Kerouac’s first biographer\, and the only biographer to interview him about his work. She published the seminal work Kerouac: A Biography and Kerouac’s first comprehensive bibliography. She is Professor Emerita of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. \nIn Joyce Johnson’s book Minor Characters\, she wrote about growing up in the 1950’s\, during a challenging period for women\, and her love affair with Jack Kerouac. In 1983 it won a National Book Critics Circle Award and more recently was cited by The New York Times as one of the best memoirs of the 20th century. Her Kerouac biography\, The Voice Is All\, came out in 2012. Her six other books include three novels and a second memoir. Johnson’s work has also appeared in The New York Review\, Vanity Fair\, and The New Yorker. During her long career as an editor\, she was responsible for the posthumous publication of Kerouac’s Vision of Cody. \nHolly George-Warren is the award-winning author of 20 books and has contributed to numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Fine Books & Collections\, and the Times Literary Supplement\, among others. She is currently writing the estate-sanctioned biography\, Jack Kerouac: A Writer’s Life\, to be published by Viking Press. \nRegina Weinreich\, a filmmaker and widely published culture critic\, is the author of Kerouac’s Spontaneous Poetics (1987)\, one of the earliest full-scale critical studies of Jack Kerouac’s literary work. She edited and compiled Kerouac’s Book of Haikus and wrote the introduction to his You’re a Genius All the Time. On the faculty of the Department of Humanities & Sciences at The School of Visual Arts since 1976\, she teaches courses in Beat literature and aesthetics \n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/symposium-on-jack-kerouac/
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SUMMARY:Chelsea Foxwell and Brooklyn Zhao on Fact and Fiction: Picturing the News in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of Anthony J. Mourek
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Evening Program \n \n  \nJapanese color prints and woodblock-printed books are beloved as works of art and literature. Less attention has been paid to those woodblock-printed images of the Meiji era (1868–1912) which purported to depict the news\, especially events of the First Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) Wars. This presentation draws on works from the Anthony J. Mourek Collection now in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center\, University of Chicago to understand how this traditional medium combined fact and fiction to express Japan’s new identity as a modern nation. \nChelsea Foxwell\, Professor of Art History\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and the College Director\, Center for East Asian Studies\, University of Chicago. \nBrooklyn Zhao\, Undergraduate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, University of Chicago. \nRegister today\, 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/chelsea-foxwell-and-brooklyn-zhao-on-fact-and-fiction-picturing-the-news-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-from-the-collection-of-anthony-j-mourek/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T130000
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SUMMARY:Adam Smyth on The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nMay Midday Program \n \nFrom the aptly named Wynkyn de Worde to creators of Zines\, Adam Smyth unspools the story of books by illuminating the lives of eighteen fascinating characters. Entertaining\, enlightening\, engaging\, and alliterative\, his book puts a fresh perspective on some familiar names while introducing others you may not be familiar with. \nDid Benjamin Franklin eat paper in order to increase the amount of fiber in his diet? Did William Wildgoose lead a campaign to outlaw quill pens out of deference to his namesake? While those intriguing questions aren’t actually addressed in Smyth’s terrific book\, he does use the broadest range of historical sources to revive and describe the sounds\, the smells\, and the atmosphere of the development of printing to reveal new perspectives on even the most well-trodden ground. \nSmyth is a professor of English literature and the history of the book at Oxford’s Balliol College. He may seem familiar to regular midday program viewers\, because other speakers have quoted him in their talks and because he is much in demand as a lecturer and learned guest in programs available online. \nMake a little history of your own and register for the May Midday today – click here!
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/adam-smyth-on-the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T203000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom: Ebay and Catawiki Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThis month we try out a new discussion format with the topic “Ebay and Catawiki: The Good\, The Bad and the Ugly.” We’ll discuss the pros and cons of these online auction platforms for collectors of Handpress Era materials. If you use them\, what are your search strategies? Have you ever regretted a purchase\, and/or have you discovered a great bargain? Along the way\, we hope you’ll show your items acquired on Ebay or Catawiki (5-minute limit\, please). \nTo join the mailing list and receive links\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-ebay-and-catawiki-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T191500
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SUMMARY:Larry McMurtry’s Runaways: The Story of Larry McMurtry’s Collection of Books by Women Travelers
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1960 the aspiring Texas writer Larry McMurtry enrolled in Stanford University with a fellowship in the Stegner creative writing program. Along with his studies\, McMurtry became immersed in the world of antiquarian and used bookshops that flourished during that time in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and it became an infatuation that\, along with writing\, would consume and change his life. \nAmong the many books McMurtry acquired during his San Francisco residency for his personal reading and eventual book business were books by women travelers\, a topic which he found captivating for their true tales of travel to distant lands by strong-willed\, independent women. \nSlowly he assembled a personal collection of books by and about women travelers. After 50 years the collection grew to almost 2000 volumes and contained 320 years of travel narratives\, from 1690 to 2010. This is the story of the collection\, what happened to it\, and the women travelers who made it so captivating – women whom McMurtry occasionally referred to as his “runaways.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by John Crichton\, author\, editor\, antiquarian bookseller\, and proprietor of The Brick Row Book Shop\, San Francisco\, California. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/larry-mcmurtrys-runaways-the-story-of-larry-mcmurtrys-collection-of-books-by-women-travelers/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T193000
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SUMMARY:Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors. \n\n\n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Grolier Club member\, Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors\, as well as their own work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-program-poetry-reading-tickets-1982037352075?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nPaul Muldoon was born in 1951 in Portadown\, County Armagh\, and was raised near The Moy\, in Northern Ireland. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farm laborer and market gardener. He is the author of a number of poetry collections\, including New Weather (1973)\, Why Brownlee Left (1980)\, Quoof (1983)\, Meeting the British (1987)\, New Selected Poems: 1968-1994 (1996)\, Hay (1998)\, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, Horse Latitudes (2006)\, and most recently One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015)\, Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016)\, and Frolic and Detour (2019). He has also published collections of criticism\, children’s books\, opera libretti\, song lyrics\, and works for radio and television. \nKevin Young is the author of many books of poetry\, including Night Watch (2025)\, Stones (2021)\, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Brown (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015; and Book of Hours (2014)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Three of Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001)\, which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jelly Roll (2003)\, a collection of blues poems; and Black Maria (2005)\, a film noir. His first book of poetry\, Most Way Home (1995)\, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucille Clifton\, who described the collection as re-creating “an inner history which is compelling and authentic and American.” Young’s other collections of poetry include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011)\, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award; Dear Darkness (2008); and For the Confederate Dead (2007)\, winner of the Quill Award in Poetry and the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Excellence. \nYoung was born in Lincoln\, Nebraska. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard\, he became a member of the Dark Room Collective\, a community of African American writers. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/paul-muldoon-and-kevin-young-poetry-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin your host Bill Bryson and this congenial group for discussion of all things bibliophilic and nineteenth- century. To receive a link and join the mailing list\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org).
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
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SUMMARY:The Irish Literary Revival: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith R. F. Foster\, Belinda McKeon\, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica \n\n\n\n\nR. F. Foster\, Belinda McKeon\, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica come together for a wide‑ranging virtual conversation on Risings: The Irish Literary Renaissance and the Making of a Nation. As foremost historians\, writers\, critics and scholars in their respective fields\, the panel will explore how literature helped imagine\, energize\, and complicate ideas of Irish nationhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nLively\, thoughtful\, and accessible\, the conversation promises to illuminate Risings not only as a landmark exhibition about a formative period\, but also as a lens through which to think afresh about the enduring power of literature in moments of national transformation. \n\n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-the-irish-literary-revival-then-and-now-tickets-1986553498992?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-irish-literary-revival-then-and-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin your host Reid Byers (author of The Private Library) and the gang for discussion of the joys and challenges of the home library. \nTo join the mailing list and receive a link\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-10/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
CREATED:20260427T135020Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters\, In Print
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nLecture with Carla Kaplan \n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed biographer Carla Kaplan\, author of Troublemaker: The Fierce\, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (HarperCollins)\, will explore the print and manuscript culture of Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) and her five sisters\, members of a famous British literary family. They wrote autobiographical novels and memoirs\, offering wildly contrasting accounts of one another. Jessica had escaped a cosseted childhood in a Cotswold manor to become a California-based Communist and then muckraker. With her 1960 memoir—fond\, funny\, and often teasing of her equally celebrated (or notorious) relatives—she hoped to come closer to the family she’d left behind. But instead\, the book\, which was lauded and sold well in the U.K. and America\, worsened the rifts. This talk will shed light on what the sisters wrote and published\, with different lenses on their upbringing\, as well as their libraries and Kaplan’s own book collection\, which includes Mitford’s rare mimeographed books and archival documentation of wranglings with publishers. Kaplan will be in conversation with Mitford’s daughter Constancia Romilly. \nREGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true-tickets-1982039480441?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nCarla Kaplan\, author of Troublemaker\, is a professor of English\, African-American and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature. She contributes to publications including The New York Times\, and among her award-winning books are Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance and a biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Kaplan founded the Northeastern Humanities Center and has been a resident fellow at institutions including New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Harvard University’s Houghton Library and W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute; University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center; Yale University’s Beinecke Library; Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Ohio State University\, and Smith College. \n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
CREATED:20260427T140004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T155215Z
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SUMMARY:Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office\, 1900-1980
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by NOBS \nJoin NOBS as we welcome George Barnum\, librarian and former Agency Historian at the Government Publishing Office (GPO). His presentation will focus on his 2017 book\, Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office\, 1900-1980\, which he describes as “a very lovingly assembled selection of photos that tell the story of the world’s largest printing and publishing concern in its busiest and largest years.” George will talk about GPO’s history and about the photographs\, “which are in themselves a very fascinating record not only of the agency but of 20th century commercial and industrial photography.” We’ll also hears stories of his time at the GPO and the picture book’s companion\, Keeping America Informed: The United States Government Publishing Office\, A Legacy of Service to the Nation (2011 & 2016). \nNOBS website: https://www.nobsbooks.org/events/picturing-the-big-shop-photos-of-the-us-government-publishing-office-1900-1980-with-george-barnum \nWe’ll meet in person at Loganberry Books on Thursday\, May 28\, 2026\, at 7:00 PM. If you prefer\, you may join us by Zoom.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/picturing-the-big-shop-photos-of-the-u-s-government-publishing-office-1900-1980/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T191500
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
CREATED:20260428T033719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T034126Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260608T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260608T181500
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
CREATED:20260428T034103Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
CREATED:20260427T135311Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260612T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T105911Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T063934
CREATED:20260427T135723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T135806Z
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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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