In Person: Words on Fire! Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Book Censorship
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Nov 02, 2024, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pacific time Seattle, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101, USA Open to all and […]
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Deborah Parker on Becoming Belle da Costa Greene
Sponsored by The Caxton Club November Midday Program Belle da Costa Greene was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian from 1908–1913 and from 1924–1948 the first Director of the Morgan Library. Though a […]
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The American War in Vietnam Through Manuscripts
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Mondays The American War In Vietnam As Shown Through Manuscripts Special Date: Monday, November 11, 2024 8:00PM Eastern Free, Live Webinar Six decades later, the […]
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Reid Byers on Imaginary Books
Sponsored by The Baxter Society Open to members of FABS Societies: contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org to receive a link. Reid Byers, the President of the Baxter Society, is the […]
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Riding Like The Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In 1939, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation’s collective imagination […]
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FABS Bindings Zoom: Richard Minsky on his Bindings 1968-Present
Sponsored by FABS Nov 18, 2024. 7:30 pm Eastern time, 4:30pm Pacific Richard Minsky will draw upon his exhibition Material Meets Metaphor and talk about choosing binding materials that evoke […]
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Robert McCracken Peck on Botanically Illustrated Books
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a live webcast as former Grolierite, Robert McCracken Peck, who is Curator of Art and Senior Fellow at The Academy of Natural Sciences […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]