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 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 FABS The 19th Century special interest group will meet the third Thursday of the month from 4:30-5:30pm Pacific/7:30-8:30pm Eastern beginning September 21. This SIG offers "a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals." To register, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org. Participants are […]