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 Grolier Club Sept 12, 12:00-1:30 New York time Zoom tour of this exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum. About this event A Zoom tour of "Finding Nura: Rediscovering an American Modernist from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection," on display at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA) through […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Jason Chin is an author and illustrator of children's books dealing with nature and science. His books have won both the Sibert (the Informational Book) and Orbis (writing for Nonfiction for Children) Medals. His most recent book, Watercress (2021) won the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. It is the story […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club April Evening Program Join us in welcoming Caxtonian Bruce Kennett as he discusses W.A. Dwiggins and his Athalinthia via Zoom. Produced entirely in New England, Athalinthia is filled with delights. It comes straight from the imagination and heart of W.A. Dwiggins (WAD), one of the great visual artists of the twentieth century. Wise and […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re hoping that our June speaker will have enough material to draw on in order to fashion a presentation. After all, she has access to only 21 million choices. Tara O’Brien serves as Director of Preservation & Conservation Services at Philadelphia’s Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (The library was founded more than a […]