UPCOMING PROGRAM

Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books

Monday, March 17, 2025
11:00 am
 - 5:00 pm
 (PT)
The Book Club of California | 47 Kearny Street | Suite 400 | San Francisco, CA 94108

A cross between a book exhibition and a conceptual art installation, this exhibition consists of a collection of books that do not really exist. Curated by Reid Byers, the exhibition includes approximately 100 books and associated arealia from his collection—all simulacra created with a team of printers, bookbinders, artists, and calligraphers—of lost books that have no surviving example, unwritten books that were planned but left unfinished, and fictive works that exist only in fiction. Highlights of the exhibition include William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Won, the lost sequel to Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, stolen in his wife’s valise at the Gare de Lyon in 1922 and never recovered.

On view at the Book Club of California from March 17, 2025 through July 21, 2025

Email programs@bccbooks.org or call (415)781-7532 ext. 3 to make an appointment.