Lindsay DiCuirci on Traps for the Young: Comstockery and Its Legacies
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. There’s nothing like a good moral panic about how young people are spending their time to get the blood boiling – whether it’s the presence […]
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Valentine’s Day Celebration and Talk: Cassandra Austen
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Janine Barchas Cassandra Austen played an important role in the legacy of her novelist sister. Janine Barchas (one of the three curators of the […]
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Edward Potten and Elizabeth Savage on Carbon-dating “Medieval” Woodblocks: A New Approach to the History of Book Collecting
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program In this program, Ed Potten and Elizabeth Savage will introduce Caxton Club members to an entirely new way of understanding woodblocks: as […]
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FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! For a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
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A Visual Journey: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored by The Book Club of California. In 1870 at age 33, Sara Plummer Lemmon left the East Coast and moved west to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany […]
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FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join your host Reid Byers and the gang for discussion of the pleasures and challenges of the private library. For a link, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
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Mexico City’s Avant-Garde Librería de Cristal Bookstore
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, […]
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Catenary Books: The Making of a Narrative Bookplate Series
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Kristy Caldwell Illustrator Kristy Caldwell will share the process of creating Catenary Books, a series of six narratively connected bookplates developed during her 2025 […]
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Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century
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 […]
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Wonders of the East: Medieval Belief and Making Monsters in the Middle Ages
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored 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 […]
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Michelle Margolis on History and Highlights of the Collection of Jewish Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University
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 […]
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Koreatown Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream”
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored 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 […]