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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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:20260608T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group: The House of Elzevier's Tiniest Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe Handpress-Era Zoom Group meets monthly for presentations and discussion of materials printed before 1800. All are welcome! \nJune 8\, 7:30-8:30pm EST: Jennifer Larson “The House of Elzevier’s Tiniest Books.” Past FABS Chair Jennifer Larson presents a capsule history of the Elzeviers\, one of the premier printing firms of the Dutch Golden Age\, and their small-format productions. This talk will focus on the 24mo format and the varying business strategies for the 24mo pursued by Elzevier proprietors in Leiden and Amsterdam. \nTo receive a link contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-group-the-house-of-elzeviers-tiniest-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T193000
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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
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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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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/Los_Angeles:20260615T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260615T173000
DTSTAMP:20260527T172427Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings: Karen Hanmer on Working With Fish Parchment
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJune 15\, Monday\nat 4 pm Pacific Time. For a link contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org\nChicago book artist Karen Hanmer began processing\, dyeing\, and binding\nwith fish parchment as a covid lockdown distraction. In the six years\nsince\, it has become a large part of her practice. In this month’s\npresentation she will take you through the steps to make and use your\nown\, and show a variety of finished work. \nKaren Hanmer’s work utilizes both traditional and contemporary book\nstructures\, and is often playful in content or format. Her work is\nincluded in more than 200 collections internationally. Hanmer has\ntwice presented at the Guild of Book Workers annual conference. She\nserved on the editorial board of The Bonefolder and as the Guild’s\nExhibitions Chair. Her thoughtful approach to structure gives students\nthe tools to reach across history and technique to create a sound and\nsatisfying binding. Website: www.karenhanmer.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-karen-hanmer-on-working-with-fish-parchment/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T200000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Bicks: Monsters in the Archives: Exploring Stephen King’s Personal Papers
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \n\n\n\n\nManuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, June 15 @ 8pm EST\nGuest Presenter: Caroline Bicks is the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society\nA live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Caroline Bicks \nTitle: \n“Monsters in the Archives: Exploring Stephen King’s Personal Papers” \nOverview: \nStephen King has published close to 70 books in the last 50 years. In 2021\, he and his wife Tabitha collected all of his available manuscript drafts into a secure\, climate-controlled archive attached to their home in Bangor\, Maine. Bicks was the first scholar to be granted extended access to this treasure trove of materials. She will discuss what she discovered about King’s writing process when she tracked the handwritten changes he made (macro and granular) to some of his most iconic works from the 1970s—the ones that scared her the most as a teenager. She’ll also talk about the conversations she had with King along the way\, and how access to a living author\, along with one’s emotional connection to their works\, can both enrich and complicate archival research. \nRegister: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O2ssd8ZSRDWBHYU71VHFvw#/registration \nPresenter: \nCaroline Bicks is the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine\, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare\, early modern culture\, and horror fiction. Her academic monographs include Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World and Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England. Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King (Hogarth\, 2026) chronicles the year she spent reading early drafts of King’s iconic 1970s stories after he and his wife Tabitha granted her extended access to their personal archive in Bangor. It includes conversations she had with King about his writing process\, as well as never-before-seen alternative endings she discovered to books like The Shining and Carrie. Bicks’s shorter nonfiction has appeared in the Modern Love column of the New York Times\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Electric Lit\, The Financial Times\, and elsewhere.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/caroline-bicks-monsters-in-the-archives-exploring-stephen-kings-personal-papers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T133328Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Bloomsday: Live at the Grolier
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nAn evening of Traditional Irish Music featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis\, Ursula Garry\, Matt Stapleton Isaac Alderson \n\n\n\n\nJoin the Grolier Club and the Irish Arts Center for a special Bloomsday\, June 16th\, evening of traditional Irish music\, featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis on fiddle\, Ursula Garry on flute\, Matt Stapleton on guitar\, and Isaac Alderson on the uilleann pipes. \nWe look forward to an unforgettable evening of music\, culture\, and history! \nThis is a livestream only event \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nThis event is only open to the public virtually. Please RSVP to receive livestream link. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-live-at-the-grolier-celebrating-bloomsday-tickets-1986555673496?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/celebrating-bloomsday-live-at-the-grolier/
LOCATION:The Grolier Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260619T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T172619Z
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThis congenial Zoom group moderated by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley meets monthly to discuss all things bookish and 19th century! We hope you will join us. \nFor a link contact Jennifer Larson info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T203000
DTSTAMP:20260527T171438Z
CREATED:20260527T171438Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: What Book Opened Up a New World for You?
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nHosted on Zoom by Reid Byers\, author of The Private Library\, this discussion-based group focuses on the joys and challenges of the home library. This month’s topics: \n1. Books that Opened Up a New World for Us\n2. Reading in Bed\n\nWe hope you will join us!\nFor a link contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-what-book-opened-up-a-new-world-for-you/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T133627Z
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SUMMARY:Play Reading: Colin Murphy's "Inside the GPO"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nThis play covers the five days in which the 1916 Rebels occupied the GPO after proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. \n\n\n\n\nFirst performed inside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin during the 2016 commemoration of the Easter Rising\, this play covers the five days in which the 1916 Rebels occupied the GPO after proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. All others register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-play-reading-colin-murphys-inside-the-gpo-tickets-1986555495965?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/play-reading-colin-murphys-inside-the-gpo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000
DTSTAMP:20260625T124507Z
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SUMMARY:Sam Gatteno: From Papyri to the 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Detroit \nBookseller Sam Gatteno presents highlights from his eclectic collection\, including Shakespeare and Shakespeare forgeries\, incunables and 16th century books\, fine press books\, art books\, Bibles\, and bindings. \nA past president of the Book Club of Detroit and a well-respected antiquarian book collector\, Sam has extensive expertise on earliest printing and publications — plus a legendary collection reflecting his deep interest in every aspect of the book. From papyri to 20th Century livres d’artistes\, Sam’s collection is full of rare and fascinating finds! Our virtual format will allow for closer views of Sam’s treasures! \nThis event will include an opportunity for Q & A; participants will be able to submit their questions via the Zoom chat function. \nFor a link please contact Marcia McBrien: bcdrsvp73@gmail.com \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/sam-gatteno-from-papyri-to-the-20th-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T203000
DTSTAMP:20260625T152507Z
CREATED:20260625T151226Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Zoom: A 1474 Medical Dictionary and A Holy Card
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nOn Monday July 13 we have two guests: \nDr. Gene Flamm will discuss his copy of the first printed medical dictionary: Simon Genuensis [Cordo]. Synonyma medicinae sive Clavis sanationis. Padua: 1474. This copy has an interesting non-medical provenance. \nMartha Driver Ph.D. will present “A Holy Card and A Book of Hours: Tracking Provenance (with questions for the audience).” \n7:30pm Eastern\n6:30pm Central\n5:30pm Mountain\n4:30pm Pacific \nFor a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-zoom-a-1474-medical-dictionary-and-a-holy-card/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T200000
DTSTAMP:20260630T124136Z
CREATED:20260630T124122Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Scriptorium for North American Manuscript Collections
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society  \nDate: Monday\, July 13 @ 8pm EST  \nGuest Presenter: Lynn Ransom\, Curator of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies\, University of Pennsylvania Libraries\, and Acting Executive Director\, Digital Scriptorium \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society  \nA pre-recorded webinar with a LIVE Q&A with presenter Lynn Ransom.  \nTitle:  \nDigital Scriptorium: Towards a National Union Catalog of Premodern Manuscripts in North American Collections  \nOverview:  \nLaunched in 2024\, the new Digital Scriptorium Catalog aims to be the first national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in North America built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. Following a brief history of similar attempts\, Lynn will discuss the motivations and principles behind the redevelopment project and why it just might work this time. \nPresenter:  \nLynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Since arriving at Penn in 2008\, she has overseen the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. an open-access\, user-maintained finding aid for the world’s pre-modern manuscripts\, and since 2020\, has led the redevelopment of the Digital Scriptorium Catalog\, a growing online national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in North American collections. She has published on issues related to the digital cataloging and manuscript description as well as on the illumination of devotional manuscripts of the 13th and 16th centuries and currently serves as the co-editor of the Schoenberg Institute’s journal Manuscript Studies.  \nTo register for this webinar visit: \nmanuscript.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/digital-scriptorium-for-north-american-manuscript-collections/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T145323Z
CREATED:20260627T145312Z
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin this congenial group for conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th-century! We meet monthly on the third Thursday. \nTo be added to the list for links\, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T145107Z
CREATED:20260625T150357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260627T145107Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Dr. Stephanie Stillo of the Library of Congress
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nDr. Stephanie Stillo\, Chief\, Rare Books and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress will show us some of the recently acquired bindings in the collection. The Library of Congress actively adds artists’ books\, fine and design bindings\, and other treasures to the collection. \nJuly 20\, Monday\, 7:30 Eastern\, 4:30 Pacific. \nFor a link please contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-dr-stephanie-stillo-of-the-library-of-congress/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T184014Z
CREATED:20260629T184000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T184014Z
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SUMMARY:A Haggadah\, A Collection\, A Synagogue: The Harold Greenbaum Rare Book Collection with Jane Rothstein
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by NOBS \n\n7:00 PM  8:30 PM\n\nCongregation Mishkan Or\, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Beachwood\, Ohio\, is the steward of an extraordinary collection of more than 200 rare volumes of Hebrew and other Jewish books from the 15th-20th centuries.  Dr. Harold Greenbaum\, a Cleveland physician\, donated this collection to his synagogue\, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple\, one of Mishkan Or’s legacy congregations\, in the late 1960s.  There it remained safe\, but relatively unexplored until Fairmount Temple’s merger with The Temple-Tifereth Israel in 2024\, when librarian and archivist Jane Rothstein began to inventory and research this hidden treasure. Aside from being amazed and delighted\, what does a synagogue librarian and her library do with a collection like this? \nAlong the way\, Mishkan Or received a grant from the State Library of Ohio and the Ohio Preservation Council\, with funds from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS)\, for the conservation of one book from the Greenbaum Collection. We chose a Passover Haggadah published in Venice in 1663.  This conservation project offers an opportunity to treat one very damaged book and explore the celebration of Passover across centuries. The project also helps open a window onto the collection\, raising awareness of it within the congregation and the wider community\, and prompting conversations about the best ways to care for and share these books. \nJane will discuss the collection and share volumes and photos.  She will also discuss the journey of the Haggadah\, from its publication in 17th-century Venice to its home in a 21st-century synagogue library in Ohio and through the conservation process. \nFor a link\, go here: https://www.nobsbooks.org/events
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-haggadah-a-collection-a-synagogue-the-harold-greenbaum-rare-book-collection-with-jane-rothstein/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T170000
DTSTAMP:20260629T135353Z
CREATED:20260629T135341Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating People's History with Josh MacPhee
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe Celebrate People’s History poster series has organized and curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998. The over 200 posters in the ongoing series are rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda\, but detourned to embody principles of democracy\, inclusion\, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history. Over more than 25 years\, MacPhee has worked with hundreds of artists\, designers\, authors\, students\, activists\, and organizers to find events\, groups\, and people who have moved forward the collective struggle of humanity to create a more equitable and just world\, who in turn have generated a diverse set of posters that bring to life successful moments in the history of social justice struggles. The posters tell stories from the subjective position of the creators\, and are often the stories of underdogs\, those written out of history. The goal of this project is not to tell a definitive history\, but to suggest a new relationship to the past\, where all of us see the crafting of history as something we both can and should participate in. \nA virtual presentation by Josh MacPhee\, designer\, artist\, archivist\, activist\, and founding member of both Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive \nRegister: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F3wbtJfoTQew3_5LZ4aU_g#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/celebrating-peoples-history-with-josh-macphee/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260727T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T011808Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating People’s History
DESCRIPTION:The Celebrate People’s History poster series has organized and curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998. The over 200 posters in the ongoing series are rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda\, but detourned to embody principles of democracy\, inclusion\, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history. Over more than 25 years\, MacPhee has worked with hundreds of artists\, designers\, authors\, students\, activists\, and organizers to find events\, groups\, and people who have moved forward the collective struggle of humanity to create a more equitable and just world\, who in turn have generated a diverse set of posters that bring to life successful moments in the history of social justice struggles. The posters tell stories from the subjective position of the creators\, and are often the stories of underdogs\, those written out of history. The goal of this project is not to tell a definitive history\, but to suggest a new relationship to the past\, where all of us see the crafting of history as something we both can and should participate in. \nA virtual presentation by Josh MacPhee\, designer\, artist\, archivist\, activist\, and founding member of both Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/celebrating-peoples-history/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T203000
DTSTAMP:20260629T134918Z
CREATED:20260625T154004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T134918Z
UID:3304-1785265200-1785270600@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books: Decorations in the Library and Reading Equipment
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nOn July 28 join your host Reid Byers and the gang for another lively discussion about Living With Books. Our topics this month: (1) “Prints\, Paintings\, and Decorations in the Library” and (2) “Reading Equipment.” \nFor a link please contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/living-with-books-decorations-in-the-library-and-reading-equipment/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260803T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260803T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T012245Z
CREATED:20260630T012211Z
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SUMMARY:Troublemaker: The Fierce\, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
DESCRIPTION:Troublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford\, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls\, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist\, famous for exposés like The American Way of Death; this biography brings her astonishing self-transformation to life with a riveting\, often hilarious account of trading wealth and status for a life of radical activism. \nWho could predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that Time magazine would crown her “Queen of the Muckrakers”? Jessica Mitford\, always known as Decca\, was brought up by an eccentric English family to marry well and reproduce her wealth and privilege\, not to advocate for the rights of others. Her beautiful sisters have been subjects of books and movies dedicated to their naughty\, glamorous lives. Decca ran away to America to forge a rebel’s life. As this richly researched book details\, Decca broke the Mitford mold. Instead of settling for life as a professional Beauty\, she fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War\, became an American Communist and pioneered witty\, hugely popular journalism\, including her 1963 blockbuster The American Way of Death. Decca dedicated her life to social justice and proved herself an immensely effective ally\, but she also injected laughter into all her political work\, annoying some activists with her relentless antics but encouraging many others to find joy in the struggle. From famed baby doctor Benjamin Spock to best friend Maya Angelou\, her anti-authoritarian irreverence had a profound impact on American culture. \nA virtual presentation by Carla Kaplan\, author\, historian\, and Associate Professor\, English Department\, Yale University\, New Haven\, Connecticut. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/troublemaker-the-fierce-unruly-life-of-jessica-mitford/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260810T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260810T191500
DTSTAMP:20260630T012729Z
CREATED:20260630T012657Z
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SUMMARY:Eugene O’Neill and Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Tao House—a California Story
DESCRIPTION:Few people realize that Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night\, which won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize\, was written in California in 1939-41. After winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936\, O’Neill and his third wife\, the actress Carlotta Monterey\, built Tao House just outside Danville\, California. Realizing that his writing career was coming to an end\, due to illness\, he needed to find a way—literally\, the tao—to write the most personal and difficult plays he had ever attempted\, also including The Iceman Cometh and A Touch of the Poet. \nTao House was inspired by Chinese principles\, which his California-born wife helped to implement in an effort to create a setting that was conducive to his writing these consummate works. It also reflects the Spanish colonial history of California. William Davies King’s new book argues that Long Day’s Journey\, O’Neill’s most deeply autobiographical play\, emerges from the tao of that house and could only have been written then and there—in that convergence of Irish\, Spanish\, and Chinese cultures and on the verge of World War II. \nKing’s book adopts an unusual form\, using the diaries of Eugene and Carlotta\, to suggest that the play might be read as a product of a marriage that was soon to go haywire but for a brief moment allowed for the creation of a work of genius\, which was\, in effect\, the genius of Tao House. Long Day’s Journey was only published and produced after O’Neill’s death\, thirteen years it was written\, but it has been performed many times worldwide by the finest actors\, and it remains the quintessential American play. Tao House has been a National Historic Site\, maintained by the National Park Service\, for fifty years. Professor King will take us into the site and into the play and into the marriage\, and he will show us many items from his extensive collection of photographs and documents of Eugene and Carlotta O’Neill. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by William Davies King\, author\, editor\, scholar\, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theater and Dance\, University of California Santa Barbara\, California. \nTo. register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/eugene-oneill-and-long-days-journey-into-night-at-tao-house-a-california-story/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T013649Z
CREATED:20260630T013110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T013649Z
UID:3341-1786986000-1786990500@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:California Eden: Heritage Landscapes of the Golden State
DESCRIPTION:For many people\, the concept of landscape is associated with gardens\, especially estate gardens. California Eden reaches far beyond the elite circle of private estates; this book highlights a wide range of landscapes from the professional to the vernacular and delves deep into the cultural and historical significance of these landscapes\, revealing the untold stories of the people who have inhabited and shaped them over the centuries. \nCo-editors Christine Edstrom O’Hara and Susan Chamberlin bring together these voices from the landscape architecture community to discuss and present the history of both rural and urban landscapes and how they shape (and are shaped by) nature and the people who design them. Entries highlight famous and beloved estate gardens but also more frequently overlooked landscapes such as shopping malls\, streetscapes\, sports venues\, and vernacular sites. \nCovering a range of places from a military installation on the California-Mexico border\, to the campus of Stanford University\, and the Japanese American gardens of San Diego\, California Eden speaks to design as well as the challenges of historic preservation of these-often ephemeral places. \nA virtual presentation by Susan Chamberlin\, author\, editor\, landscape historian\, and licensed landscape architect and Christine Edstrom O’Hara\, author and Professor of Landscape Architecture\, Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo\, California \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/california-eden-heritage-landscapes-of-the-golden-state/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260824T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260824T181500
DTSTAMP:20260630T013815Z
CREATED:20260630T013542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T013815Z
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SUMMARY:Out of the Gutters: How California Comix Saved Comics
DESCRIPTION:Out of the Gutters: Obscenity\, Censorship\, and Transgression\, edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick S. Lawrence\, explores US comics that have been challenged for their boundary-breaking content. Covering well-known underground figures like R. Crumb and Charles Burns\, newcomers such as C. Spike Trotman and Emil Ferris\, and mainstream creators including Chris Claremont and Archie Goodwin\, the collection dives into the market economics of transgression\, historical representations of graphic violence\, the ever-changing meaning of pornography\, sex-positive comics by BIPOC authors\, and queerness in pop-culture mega-properties. Comics have long been and continue to be a subject of moral panics\, but instead of targeting raw sex like Crumb’s counter-culture provocations in the last century\, censors now focus on affirmations of nonheteronormative identity even where sex isn’t prominent\, as in Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. And while violence is a constant in comics\, stories that acknowledge nationalist violence\, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the innovative Blazing Combat\, have also been blacklisted. \nCome join Professors Lawrence and Santos to discuss how comics creators resisted these censorship paradigms from their outset and how these transgressors paved the way for contemporary comics culture in both narrative and publishing terms. We will especially highlight California counterculture’s special role in saving comic books from bland irrelevance. Learn how the implementation of the Comics Code Authority and the censorship paradigm established by 1973’s Miller v California nearly vanquished the comic book industry altogether\, as well as how stalwart industry creators\, such as Archie Goodwin of Warren Publishing and the outrageously crude members of the Comix movement\, boldly resisted\, either seeking ways around the censorship apparatus or deliberately thumbing their noses at it. Come learn how San Francisco became a hot bed of anticensorship attitudes through the history of the comic book and the graphic novel while we consider what lessons we may learn from 20th century censorship to face 21st century challenges. \nA virtual presentation by Jorge J. Santos Jr.\, author\, editor\, and Associate Professor\, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US\, College of the Holy Cross\, Worchester\, Massachusetts and Patrick S. Lawrence\, author\, editor\, and Professor of English\, University of South Carolina\, Lancaster. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/out-of-the-gutters-how-california-comix-saved-comics/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T135806Z
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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