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Sponsored by The Book Club of California Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian (1908–1913) and the first Director of the Morgan Library (1924–1948). She was also the daughter of two mixed-race parents and passed for white. In the nearly six hundred letters that Greene sent to art historian Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), […] |
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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 in-person, this provocative one-day program explores censorship from multiple perspectives. If you are alarmed by censorship and enjoy thought-provoking content, this is for you! A […] |
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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 striking and much written about figure, much of what is known about Greene derives from her more than 600 letters to art historian Bernard Berenson. […] 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 American War in Vietnam remains a controversial and influential event. Stuart has been collecting the conflict for a quarter century now, building one of the […] |
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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 author of The Private Library, listed among the best non-fiction books of 2021 by the Washington Post. At our November meeting, he will speak on […] |
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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 of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true […] 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 the metaphor of the text. It will feature images of Richard Minsky’s bindings showing how they began and evolved from 1968 to the present. He […] |
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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 of Drexel University, lectures on books about the natural world from the 18th and 19th centuries that defied expectations by replicating nature in a tangible […] |
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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 […] |
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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 |
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