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  • Conversation with David M. Rubenstein on Abraham Lincoln

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club online for a livestreamed conversation with David M. Rubenstein about the public exhibition Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print, which runs until December 28, 2024, in our ground-floor Exhibition Hall. Note: This is a live webcast. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lincoln-exhibition-event-conversation-with-david-m-rubenstein-tickets-1044322214857?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite If you wish to register instead for the in-person event, please visit this page. In […]

  • FABS Zoom: Living With Books

    Sponsored by FABS Fourth Tuesday of the month, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific/7:00-8:30pm Eastern Join the Zoom group that meets monthly to discuss the pleasures and challenges of home libraries. This month's topics are "bad" home libraries and sound/silence/music in libraries. To be added to the mailing list please contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • Caxton Printers of Idaho: A Century of Publishing in the American West

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California James H. Gipson founded Caxton Printers as a small print shop in rural Idaho over a century ago. During the following decades, Caxton grew to publish hundreds of books across all genres––primarily about the American West. Gipson’s philosophy was to help writers from the West get published, regardless […]

  • Andrew Hui on Renaissance Libraries

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club as Andrew Hui, associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will lecture on his new book, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton), which reveals how the Renaissance studiolo (“little studio”), space dedicated to self-cultivation, became both balm and poison for the soul. Prof. Hui, an insatiable bookworm himself, […]

  • Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of the Black Literary Canon

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program Presented by the Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium August 24, 1949: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks is published. It is her second volume of poetry, and readers admire and struggle with its technical forms, its atomizations, and critiques of racial life in Black America. At the book’s center […]

  • FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join us this month as Dr. Gene Flamm discusses some variations among the incunable editions of the first illustrated work on anatomy – Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae, 1491-1500. To get on the mailing list for this group and receive links, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • Allie Alvis on Weird and Wonderful Treasures in the Winterthur Library

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program A recent Caxton Club program unfolded like an English country house mystery: The Case of the Poison Pigments, in which the Winterthur Library played a vital detecting role. New to Inspector Winterthur? Well, imagine a 175-room house nestled into a remarkable thousand-acre estate. It was brought to life […]

  • Abraham Lincoln Virtual Exhibition Tour

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a video tour of the exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" with curator Mazy Boroujerdi, followed by live online Q&A. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-qa-abraham-lincoln-his-life-in-print-tickets-1044332595907?aff=ebdsoporgprofile  

  • FABS 19th Century Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join this congenial group for conversation on all things bookish and 19th century! For announcement and links to the monthly meetings, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

  • FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group: John Windle on Pochoir Technique

    Sponsored by FABS The Handpress Era Zoom group is hosting a talk by bookseller and William Blake expert John Windle, who will discuss the pochoir technique used at the Trianon Press to create extraordinary facsimiles of works by Blake and others. Join us! Contact Jennifer: info@fabsocieties.org

  • Jennifer Larson on “Little Books and Big Ideas in the Handpress Era”

    Sponsored by The Book Club of Detroit As soon as people in the West learned to print, they made little books. But what types of books were produced in very small formats, and why? Using examples from her collection, Jennifer Larson will describe the development of miniature formats and typography, and explore the literary authors […]

  • Morgan Swan on Penny Dreadfuls

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club January Midday Program “It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.” Daniel Webster Curl up in your Zoom Room and prepare to be magically transported to that much loved small college in Hanover, New Hampshire. As Londoners became increasingly literate, […]