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Here's our list of November bookish events from FABS member societies: free and open to the public except where otherwise noted.
Nov 2: (IN PERSON) Words on Fire! Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Book Censorship. Open to all, this provocative one-day program explores censorship from multiple perspectives. If you are alarmed by censorship and enjoy thought-provoking content, this is for you! (Seattle, The Book Club of Washington)
Nov 11: Deborah Parker on “Becoming Belle da Costa Greene.” Belle da Costa Greene was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian from 1908–1913 and from 1924–1948 the first Director of the Morgan Library. Though a striking and much written about figure, much of what is known about Greene derives from her more than 600 letters to art historian Bernard Berenson. Parker’s talk will examine Greene’s vivid account of her working life. (Caxton Club)
Nov 11: FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group. This group discusses printed materials before 1800. In the November meeting FABS Chair Jennifer Larson will present "'Poeta ad Lectorem': A Printer's Preface in a 1523 Edition of Juvenal by Melchior Sessa." After the Q&A, we'll have Open Mic for 16th Century books! Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org to join the mailing list.
Nov 11: The American War in Vietnam Through Manuscripts. Six decades later, the American War in Vietnam remains a controversial and influential event. Stuart Lutz has been collecting the conflict for a quarter century now, building one of the most important archives in private hands. He owns letters by the great leaders of the war (Ho Chi Minh, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon); the American serviceman and servicewoman (diaries, letters home, photo albums) and the pro-war and anti-war movements (posters, bumper stickers, leaflets). Stuart will select about ten manuscripts from his collection and show how they illuminate the war and what they can teach us today.
November 13: Reid Byers on Imaginary Books (Open to members of FABS societies). Reid Byers, the President of the Baxter Society, is the author of The Private Library, listed among the best non-fiction books of 2021 by the Washington Post. He will speak on his upcoming book and exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books. (The Baxter Society)
Nov 18 FABS Bindings Zoom: Richard Minsky on his Bindings 1968-Present. Richard Minsky will draw upon his exhibition Material Meets Metaphor and talk about choosing binding materials that evoke the metaphor of the text. It will feature images of Richard Minsky’s bindings showing how they began and evolved from 1968 to the present. He will be glad to answer questions about concepts and techniques. You can see many of the bindings here.
To join the mailing list for this group contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
Nov 18: Iris Jamahl Dunkle will speak on her new book about Sanora Babb, the woman whose field notes and oral histories of migrant workers formed the basis for John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. (The Book Club of California)
Nov 19: Robert McCracken Peck on Botanically Illustrated Books. The Grolier Club presents a live webcast as Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Senior Fellow at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, lectures on books about the natural world from the 18th and 19th centuries that defied expectations by replicating nature in a tangible way. In what we think of as the “Golden Age” of natural history publications, John James Audubon and James Bateman took their volumes to extremes in size, while others bedazzled contemporaries with illustrations that are still referenced by scientists and sought after by collectors. (The Grolier Club)
Nov 21: FABS Nineteenth Century Zoom Group. Join this congenial discussion group for conversation on all things bookish and nineteenth-century! Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org to join the mailing list.
Nov 22: Conversation with David M. Rubenstein on Abraham Lincoln. In many ways, books made Abraham Lincoln. He became a lawyer through self-disciplined study, won the White House through the concurrent rise of American popular publishing, and remains one of the most written about figures over the 160 years since his death. Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print (an exhibition at the Grolier Club) uses original printings of books and ephemera to create a sweeping, conceptual portrait of the man. The exhibition features important editions of Lincoln’s greatest accomplishments, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, the Cooper Union Speech, his debates with Stephen A. Douglass, and many others. (The Grolier Club)
Nov 26: Living With Books FABS Zoom. Join the Zoom group that meets monthly to discuss the pleasures and challenges of home libraries. This month's topics are "bad" home libraries and sound/silence/music in libraries. Contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org to join the mailing list.
December Sneak Peek:
Dec 2: James H. Gipson founded Caxton Printers as a small print shop in rural Idaho over a century ago. During the following decades, Caxton grew to publish hundreds of books across all genres––primarily about the American West. Learn more about Gipson's story with archivist Alessandro Meregaglia (The Book Club of California)
Dec 3: Andrew Hui, associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will lecture on his new book, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton), which reveals how the Renaissance studiolo (“little studio”), space dedicated to self-cultivation, became both balm and poison for the soul. Prof. Hui, an insatiable bookworm himself, has combed literary and visual works to trace how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. (The Grolier Club)
Stay tuned to the FABS Calendar, as more events are sure to be posted soon.
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