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  • The Deserts of California, a California Field Atlas

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    With climate breakdown heating up and desertification looming over the horizon, Obi Kaufmann leads curious adventurers on a voyage into the sage-and-ocher landscapes of the American West’s world-famous desert regions this fall in his revelatory and sumptuously illustrated new volume The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas. As philosophical as it is geophysical, this journey […]

  • The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding

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    The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era bookcloth. Lead scientist Dr. Rosie Grayburn will situate the use of English bookcloth colored with highly poisonous emerald green pigment and other toxic pigments within a broader historical context; recommend safe handling and storage practices for emerald green bookbindings; and report […]

  • The Orange and the Dream of California

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    The Orange and the Dream of California takes a lively, literary, and extraordinarily visual look at the symbiotic and highly symbolic relationship between the Golden State and its “golden apple.” Untold thousands of adventurers and health-seekers came West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, lured by postcards of orange blossoms juxtaposed to snow-capped […]

  • The Newly Discovered Notebook of Isaac Newton

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The Cambridge University Library recently purchased a previously unknown notebook kept by Isaac Newton’s chamber-fellow, John Wickins, in the years around 1680. It is possible to identify the contents of the notebook as being previously unknown compositions and correspondence of Isaac Newton, which shed light on many aspects of his work and his engagement with […]

  • Print Your Own Broadside Affair

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Letterpress print your own broadside on the Book Club’s Colombian hand press with Li Jiang, Lemoncheese Press. A limited number of broadsides will be printed. Registration required.

  • The Life, Motto, and Library of William Walker (1570-1642), Vicar of Chiswick

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid inscription: “Will and Walke aright. Will: Walker,” usually appearing on the title-page of a printed book, or on the first or last leaf of a manuscript. This talk will attempt to identify the author of the inscription and […]

  • Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking

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    Active between 1957 and 1972, The Situationist International (S.I.) was a revolutionary alliance of artists, intellectuals, architects and political theorists that is hailed as the “last avant-garde” of the 20th century. One of the organization’s core concepts is that of détournement, which can be understood as the subversion of established cultural commodities as a means […]

  • Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, The Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

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    When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and […]

  • Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track

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    the blinn house 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, CA, United States

    On December 22, 2013, Hollywood Park Racetrack closed its doors permanently. Comprising 500 photographs culled from more than 25,000 taken on location, Clubhouse Turn (2013-2016) is the final documentation of the historic landmark before its demolition. It is a portrait of not only the architecture and grounds of Hollywood Park, but of those individuals whose livelihood and […]

  • Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California

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    An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series, along with several other books and […]

  • The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    At the time of Herman Melville’s death, in 1891, his novels had fallen into obscurity. Moby-Dick, his masterwork published in 1851, was out of print and unread. But in the 1920s, critical reassessments led to a “Melville revival.” This lecture surveys some of the famous and less well-known illustrated editions, artists’ books, and other visual interpretations, […]

  • Writing to Resist: Technology, Physicality, Spirituality

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    register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-to-resist-technology-physicality-spirituality-tickets-407666771287 The Grand Finale to Our Monthly Speaker Series: The Art, Craft & Business of Writing. California's oldest writing club is wrapping up our Speaker Series season with a panel of authors bringing urgent perspectives about technology, physicality, and spirituality to the topic of making change through the power of your pen. […]

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