Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re presenting a video of the April program for those who were unable to attend the program at ULCC. A live Q&A with the authors will follow. Chicago writers and historians Paul Durica and Bill Savage will take us on a journey through the Chicago of 1893 with their edition […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We regularly draw on speakers from libraries to tell us wondrous tales about remarkable collections. But who tells the libraries’ stories? Messrs. Pettegree and der Weduwen do, in their terrific book, The Library: A Fragile History (Basic Books, 2021). In it they address the real world challenges facing libraries … […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Gad, Holmes. The collection features more than 60,000 items; it is the largest gathering of materials related to us and this Conan Doyle fellow. But where can it be? We know that is housed in a secure underground site … well out of sight. How will we ever find it?” […]
Submitted by The Caxton Club To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this most distinctive novel of the 20th century, catch up on the epic Centennial Readings of James Joyce's Ulysses sponsored by the Thornwillow Press. https://www.thornwillow.com/blog/bloomsyear-centennial-reading/
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Sept 9, noon Chicago time “Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.” – Dorothy Parker A blunt assessment indeed … but Hemingway would not have stood for sitting while Proust would gladly have taken her injunction lying down. Where and how fifty writers wrote (and write) […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Zoom event open to the public. September 27, 6:30pm Chicago time George Salter (1897–1967) was a German-born and, from 1940 on, American calligrapher, book and book jacket designer, illustrator, and teacher who revolutionized the world of book jacket design. His design work ranged from best sellers for Alfred A. Knopf […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 10/14/2022 Zoom begins promptly at Noon Chicago Time (Central). Preregistration required via website. Zoom (only) option is free and open to all. October Midday Program Let’s get a jump on college football and visit new Big Ten member UCLA before it starts regularly engaging in gridiron tilts in New […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers’ lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context and target of textual interpretation—come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of author centrism back to the […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Dec 9, noon Central Time There’s an exhibit on at Stanford about The Handmade Book. Its location speaks volumes about benefactors who have helped to build the library. The exhibit is in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing. (Even if you knew the way, […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Jan 13, 12:30 Central Time/1:30 Eastern Time Nick Wilding teaches a course at Rare Book School called "Forgeries, Facsimiles & Sophisticated Copies" and we’ll be attending for an hour or so as he talks about documents that delighted and then disappointed. To tell the story he draws a remarkable cast […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium When/Where: 1/19/2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST via Zoom. January Daytime Program Join Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell as she shares an overview of Gerber Hart Library and Archives. Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart’s collections focus on the culture and history of LGBTQ peoples and additional […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club 6:30pm CT, 7:30pm EST The 1930s were the “golden age” of mural art in the United States. In 1935, Chicago artist Miklos Gaspar was commissioned to paint a mural cycle on all 93 feet of wall space in a private dining and meeting room of the Union League Club of […]