Three Brief But Spectacular Glimpses Into a Life in Books

Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 3/21/2023 6:30 PM CT Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: March Evening Program Three Caxtonians will give short presentations of interest to bibliophiles, followed by live Q&A session. Rudy Altergott: The Poetry of […]

The Transatlantic Transformation of Poor Molly Goosey into La Gansa Amorosa

Sponsored by The Caxton Society and the American Antiquarian Society Preregistration required via website. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: March Evening Program This presentation explores the appropriation, adaptation, and translation of the picture book Michaelmas Day or The Fate of Poor Molly Goosey. Originally issued by London publisher Dean & […]

The Photographic History of the Nineteenth-Century American West POSTPONED

Sponsored by The Caxton Club POSTPONED: A scheduling conflict arose and we’re hopeful that we can deliver this program during our 2023–2024 season. Online and open to all. Quick. What are the two flattest U.S. states? Here’s a hint, neither correct response starts with “Kansas.” First place honors belong to Florida and second … to […]

Janice Katz on Japan Comes to Chicago: The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 4/14/2023 12:00 PM CT Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. If specially equipped Deloreans like the one in Back to the Future were available at car dealerships, an awful lot of test drives would probably take potential buyers to 1893 … the White City … the Midway … the Columbian Exposition. […]

Bruce Kennett on W.A. Dwiggins, Teller of Tales

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 […]

Dennis Duncan on Index, A History of the

Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program Now we take search for granted, asking Alexa or Siri to race through the Internet to find (though not always on the first try) exactly what we’re looking for. But it hasn’t always been so. People used to be faced with a thick accumulation of paper or […]

Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400

Sponsored by The Caxton Club and The Newberry Library Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio at the Newberry. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Free and open to all. Register at the Newberry: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/shakespeares-first-folio-at-400 Esteemed Shakespeare […]

The Play’s the (Medieval) Thing: What Manuscripts Reveal

Sponsored by The Caxton Club Theater didn’t just spring to life with Shakespeare. Morality, mystery, masques and more trod the boards long before anyone conjured up the First Folio. You’ll want to be in the audience as Dr. Carol Symes explores the lively history of medieval plays. Among Caxton speakers, she’s probably the first to […]

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 […]

Hannah Batsel and Leslie Winter on Caxton Women Collect

Sponsored by The Caxton Club March Evening Program Hannah Batsel “A Library of Images: An Artist and Illustrator’s Handbibliothek.” While the subject matter of Hannah’s collection varies widely, every volume serves the same purpose: a reference tool to lend detail and verisimilitudes to the books she creates. In addition to books about art and illustration, her […]