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SUMMARY:In Person: Words on Fire! Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Book Censorship
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nNov 02\, 2024\, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pacific time \nSeattle\, 93 Pike St #307\, Seattle\, WA 98101\, USA \nOpen 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! \nA one-day event sponsored by the Book Club of Washington and Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum\, with additional support from The Kelmscott Bookshop. \nRegistration fees (collected via Credit Card or PayPal when you RSVP) \nBook Club of Washington and Folio Members: $40 \nNon-Members: $55 \nStudents: $15 \nTo locate Folio in the Pike Place Market and see parking options: https://www.folioseattle.org/contact-us/ \nRegister here: \nhttps://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/words-on-fire-historical-and-contemporary-perspectives-on-book-censorship-1
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/in-person-words-on-fire-historical-and-contemporary-perspectives-on-book-censorship/
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SUMMARY:Deborah Parker on Becoming Belle da Costa Greene
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nNovember Midday Program \n \nBelle 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. While Greene’s letters to the connoisseur have proven invaluable to writers seeking to reconstruct the larger narrative of her life\, the artistry of the letters and the way in which her writing creates a singular self\, have gone unnoticed. Parker’s talk will examine Greene’s vivid account of her working life — how she managed her education\, her vibrant responses to books\, and some of her most signal accomplishments. \nDeborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. Her research expertise and teaching focus on Italian and Mediterranean visual and print cultures in the medieval and early modern eras. Her latest book\, Becoming Belle da Costa Greene — A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters is published by Villa I Tatti. \nRegister today! \nNovember Midday Program \n \nBelle 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. While Greene’s letters to the connoisseur have proven invaluable to writers seeking to reconstruct the larger narrative of her life\, the artistry of the letters and the way in which her writing creates a singular self\, have gone unnoticed. Parker’s talk will examine Greene’s vivid account of her working life — how she managed her education\, her vibrant responses to books\, and some of her most signal accomplishments. \nDeborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. Her research expertise and teaching focus on Italian and Mediterranean visual and print cultures in the medieval and early modern eras. Her latest book\, Becoming Belle da Costa Greene — A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters is published by Villa I Tatti. \nRegister today: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5901089 \nPreregistration required via website. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Please 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/deborah-parker-on-becoming-belle-da-costa-greene/
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SUMMARY:The American War in Vietnam Through Manuscripts
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Mondays\nThe American War In Vietnam As Shown Through Manuscripts\nSpecial Date: Monday\, November 11\, 2024\n8:00PM Eastern\nFree\, Live Webinar \nSix 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 most important archives in private hands. He owns letters by the great leaders of the war (Ho Chi Minh\, Presidents Kennedy\, Johnson and Nixon); the American serviceman and servicewoman (diaries\, letters home\, photo albums) and the pro-war and anti-war movements (posters\, bumper stickers\, leaflets). Stuart will select about ten manuscripts from his collection and show how they illuminate the war and what they can teach us today. \nPresenter: Stuart Lutz of Stuart Lutz Historical Documents\, Inc.\nStuart Lutz has been in the historic document and manuscript field for over thirty years. During that time\, he has sold the autographs and letters of all the Presidents\, prominent Civil War and Revolutionary War figures\, and Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Plus he has sold items from famous authors\, well-known businessmen\, important aviators and scientists\, distinguished African-Americans and notable women. He also specializes in correspondence with outstanding content penned by ordinary people. These include a letter written from the Oregon Trail\, Civil War battle letters written by soldiers\, or a letter written from Honolulu after Pearl Harbor. \nStuart is a member of the Professional Autograph Dealers Association\, the Manuscript Society\, the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America\, and the Ephemera Society. He is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America\, qualified in Historic Documents. He was the subject of a Time magazine article on his appraisal of their extensive archives. \n  \nREGISTER: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5917271160783/WN_Y4wuQwL7S3mDLVhD4cnXAA \n(You will receive an email confirmation of your registration)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-american-war-in-vietnam-through-manuscripts/
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SUMMARY:Reid Byers on Imaginary Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baxter Society \nOpen to members of FABS Societies: contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org to receive a link. \nReid 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 his upcoming book and exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York\, Imaginary Books: Lost\, Unfinished\, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books. The meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on November 13\, at Glickman Library in Portland\, and on Zoom. \nThe New York Times said: \nThis irresistible conceptual-art installation displays meticulously constructed simulacra of books that don’t exist — some because they’ve been lost\, others because they never did exist. Look for “Love’s Labour’s Won\,” Ernest Hemingway’s first novel\, and the “Necronomicon.” (Dec. 5-Feb. 15\, 2025; Grolier Club) – Will Heinrich\, NY Times\, Sept 6\, 2024.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/reid-byers-on-imaginary-books/
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SUMMARY:Riding Like The Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 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 experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind\, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. \nDunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There\, she befriended the era’s literati\, including Ray Bradbury and Ralph Ellison; entered into an illegal marriage; and was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was Babb’s field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that Steinbeck relied on to write his novel. But this is not merely a saga of literary usurping; on her own merits\, Babb’s impact was profound. Her life and work feature heavily in Ken Burns’s award-winning documentary The Dust Bowl and inspired Kristin Hannah in her bestseller The Four Winds. Riding Like the Wind reminds us with fresh awareness that the stories we know—and who tells them—can change the way we remember history. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Iris Jamahl Dunkle\, author \nRegister here: https://www.bccbooks.org/event/riding-like-the-wind-the-life-of-sanora-babb-2/
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/riding-like-the-wind-the-life-of-sanora-babb/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Richard Minsky on his Bindings 1968-Present
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nNov 18\, 2024. 7:30 pm Eastern time\, 4:30pm Pacific \nRichard 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 will be glad to answer questions about concepts and techniques. You can see many of the bindings here. \nTo join the mailing list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-richard-minsky-on-his-bindings-1968-present/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T183000
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SUMMARY:Robert McCracken Peck on Botanically Illustrated Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin 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 way. \nThe volumes incorporated the organisms themselves into their pages\, or\, in the case of trees\, used the very subjects being discussed to create the books describing them. In what we think of as the “Golden Age” of natural history publications\, John James Audubon and James Bateman took their volumes to extremes in size\, while Maria Sibylla Merian\, Mark Catesby\, Pierre Joseph Redoute\, Joseph Bloch\, John Gould and other naturalist-artists bedazzled contemporaries with illustrations that are still referenced by scientists and sought after by collectors. These publications’ goal was to record and disseminate information about plants and wildlife\, and to provide “lifelike” illustrations of flora and fauna. \nIn this heavily illustrated lecture\, Peck will discuss a different approach to scientific illustration: how natural history specimens were used to illustrate themselves in three dimensions in exsiccatae\, xylotheks\, and lepidochromes. He will also discuss books illustrated with feathers. You won’t want to miss this unusual – and beautiful – presentation about a little-known aspect of scientific book production. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-robert-mccracken-peck-on-botanically-illustrated-books-tickets-1044425263077?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/robert-mccracken-peck-on-botanically-illustrated-books/
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SUMMARY:Conversation with David M. Rubenstein on Abraham Lincoln
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin 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. \nNote: 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 \nIf you wish to register instead for the in-person event\, please visit this page. \nIn many ways\, books made Abraham Lincoln. He became a lawyer through self-disciplined study\, won the White House through the concurrent rise of American popular publishing\, and remains one of the most written about figures over the 160 years since his death. Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print uses original printings of books and ephemera to create a sweeping\, conceptual portrait of the man. The exhibition features important editions of Lincoln’s greatest accomplishments\, including the Emancipation Proclamation\, the Gettysburg Address\, the Cooper Union Speech\, his debates with Stephen A. Douglass\, and many others. More than 150 objects describe the life of Lincoln as he was born in the American West\, captivated by literature\, shaped by the portentous 1850s\, tested by the American Civil War\, responsible for the end of slavery\, and murdered and mourned at the age of 56. Featuring materials from the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection\, the exhibition is curated by Mazy Boroujerdi\, special advisor to the collection\, and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the Grolier Club. \nDavid M. Rubenstein is co-founder and co-chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group and is the principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. His published books include The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency (2024) and The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (2019). His philanthropic activities have assisted the Lincoln Memorial\, the Washington Monument\, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello\, Arlington House\, and the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima). His collection has included the Bay Psalm Book (1640\, the first book printed in America) and the Magna Carta (1297\, one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy). \nVisit the exhibition online and view case images on Flickr.\nPhoto Credit: Cover of Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print (Grolier Club\, from Marquand Books). Cover design by Ryan Polich.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/conversation-with-david-m-rubenstein-on-abraham-lincoln/
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SUMMARY:FABS Zoom: Living With Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nFourth Tuesday of the month\, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific/7:00-8:30pm Eastern \nJoin 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. \nTo be added to the mailing list please contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-zoom-living-with-books-2/
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