Women’s Book History and the Knowledge Revolution
The fields of book history and bibliography are having a cultural reckoning. The Women in Book History Bibliography (womensbookhistory.org) has acted as an impetus for championing the “lost” histories of women in the book trades and as a tool for arguing for further recovery work. Still in progress, the bibliography currently consists of over 2000 […]
A ‘Deep City’ Approach to Climate Change: The Case of Deep Oakland
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City, presents a seldom-attempted blend of human and geologic history, explaining the stories told by the physical landscape and detailing how the city has interacted with it. Wealth generated in the region from its geological resources―water, stone, soil and […]
Caxton Printers of Idaho: A Century of Publishing in the American West
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. Gipson’s philosophy was to help writers from the West get published, regardless of the commercial success of their books. […]
Caxton Printers of Idaho: A Century of Publishing in the American West
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. Gipson’s philosophy was to help writers from the West get published, regardless of the commercial success of their books. […]
Publication Release: From California
The Book Club of California is pleased to publish From California: Poems by Dana Gioia, Engravings by Richard Wagener—an elegant work from two very accomplished California artists. With the publication of From California, Richard Wagener, the distinguished wood engraver, and Dana Gioia, the renowned poet, delve into their shared perspectives on California, the state that […]
Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
In 1939, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation’s collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. […]
Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
In 1939, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation’s collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding […]
Publication Release: From California
The Book Club of California is pleased to publish From California: Poems by Dana Gioia, Engravings by Richard Wagener—an elegant work from two very accomplished California artists. With the publication of From California, Richard Wagener, the distinguished wood engraver, and Dana Gioia, the renowned poet, delve into their shared perspectives on California, the state that has profoundly […]
Belle da Costa Greene: A Transformative Librarian Through Her Letters
Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was Pierpont Morgan’s personal librarian (1908–1913) and the first Director of the Morgan Library (1924–1948). She was also the daughter of two mixed-race parents and passed for white. In the nearly six hundred letters that Greene sent to art historian Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), author Deborah Parker identifies Greene’s energetic pursuit […]
The Forgetters: Greg Sarris with Leslie Carol Roberts
Greg Sarris—tribal leader, scholar, teacher, and activist—has always kept stories, and storytelling, at the center of his ambitious life’s work. In his latest book, The Forgetters, he goes to the root of storytelling, in a loosely interwoven collection told by two “crow sisters” and inspired by creation myths of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples […]