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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Sponsored by FABS The Living With Books group meets via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month for convivial chat about home libraries. This month's topics are Book Audits […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club for a live webcast lecture by Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, in conjunction […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California America’s suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes suburban realities. Today they […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Live, Free Webinar Monday, July 1, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern , 5:00 PM Pacific (US and Canada) Presenters: Christine von der Linn of Honey & Wax […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Prepare to be captivated by these print wonders that move. Volvelles, flaps, and pop-ups, oh my! Renaissance pop-up book expert Suzanne Karr Schmidt […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California For more than twenty years, the Los Angeles Times columnist Al Martinez (1929-2015) delighted, and enriched the lives of, thousands of readers across […]
Sponsored by FABS July 8: Handpress Era (second Monday of the month). This month we will hear from David Levy about a trip to Aberdeen to visit one of four known copies of […]