Sponsored by The Grolier Club Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors. Paul Muldoon and Grolier Club member, Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Ann Charters, Holly George-Warren, Joyce Johnson, and Regina Weinreich Kerouac scholars Ann Charters, Joyce Johnson, Holly George-Warren, and Regina Weinreich will discuss their experiences with, and thoughts on, Jack Kerouac. The four panel members are all noted Kerouac scholars and biographers. Ann Charters and Joyce […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Randy Gue, Michael Inman, Elizabeth Ott, and Carolyn Vega A lively panel discussion with members of the NYPL’s Berg and Emory’s Rose Library, which both hold substantial repositories of Jack Kerouac material. Carolyn Vega and Michael Inman from NYPL and Elizabeth Ott and Randy Gue […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Colm Tóibín Award winning Irish novelist and critic Colm Tóibín will trace the legacy of the Irish Literacy Renaissance through successive generations of Irish writers. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-irish-literary-renaissance-tickets-1981942212510?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Oscar Wilde’s posthumous reputation. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-after-oscar-the-legacy-of-a-scandal-tickets-1978912426338?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Janine Barchas Cassandra Austen played an important role in the legacy of her novelist sister. Janine Barchas (one of the three curators of the Grolier’s Paper Jane exhibition) will talk about things learned from mounting the exhibition, share some of her research about Cassandra, as well […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Kristy Caldwell Illustrator Kristy Caldwell will share the process of creating Catenary Books, a series of six narratively connected bookplates developed during her 2025 William H. Helfand Fellowship at the Grolier Club Library. Kristy Caldwell is a New York-based illustrator and an assistant professor […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Jane Ziegelman Jane Ziegelman, author of the new book Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, will explore a little known body of Jewish folk literature known as yizkor books. Written by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were privately published […]