• Elizabeth Bradley on Washington Irving

    Sponsored by The Caxton Club Halloween approaches. It’s Friday the 13th. The path to the Caxton meeting is illuminated by the faint glow of a Zoom screen. And are those the sounds of hoofbeats approaching from behind? Could it be a hurrying Hessian? With all of that, not even Van Winkle could nod off as […]

  • Virtual Symposium: Billy Budd at 100

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club for a livestreamed Symposium on Billy Budd in conjunction with Grolierite William Palmer Johnston’s exhibition, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100, running in the Club’s second-floor Gallery through November 9, 2024. The Club will host this symposium on Herman Melville and his novella Billy Budd in the ground-floor Exhibition Hall. Note: this is a live webcast.  Register here: […]

  • Virtual Tour and Curator Q&A for Billy Budd at 100 Exhibition

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator William Palmer Johnston leads a prerecorded tour of his exhibition "Melville's Billy Budd at 100" followed by a live online Q&A. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-and-curator-qa-for-billy-budd-at-100-exhibition-tickets-1027617320067?aff=erelpanelorg Melville’s Billy Budd at 100 commemorates the centenary of the posthumous and first publication of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd (1924), the story of a young “Handsome Sailor” impressed into the […]