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January 2023

Thu 12
Featured Featured January 12 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

A Trove of Zohars

Mechanics' Institute


with author Lawrence Weschsler and photographer Stephen Berkman An antic tale of investigative perplexities and vertiginous inquiry results when author Lawrence Weschler tracks down Stephen Berkman, the wet-collodion devotee who claims to have discovered a trove of work by Shimmel Zohar, a 19th-century photographer who chronicled the Jewish immigrant community of the Lower East Side.

Sat 14
Featured Featured January 14 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Characters Who Aren’t People: When Places Play a Role

Zoom

Glenda Carroll in Conversation with Vera Chan You’re reading over a draft of your book. You pause, scratch your head, and think, ‘this fictional café is taking over my story.” Then you decide, that’s not a bad thing. Facebook Saturday Live kicks off the new year with “Characters Who Aren’t People: When Places Play a […]

Tue 17
Featured Featured January 17 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Developmental Editing Happy Hour

Zoom

Are you a developmental editor, or interested in developmental editing? Join us for an informal chat about this fun and fascinating variety of editing. This event is free to attend and open to all editors.

Tue 17
Featured Featured January 17 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

21st-Century Letterpress with Dafi Kühne

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA

Explore Dafi Kühne's dynamic typographic letterpress posters during this special in-person event at Letterform Archive. The letterpress posters of Dafi Kühne are vivid, loud, and definitely atypical of letterpress style. Why would a designer choose to use analog technology to produce posters in the 21st century if not to get that classic look? Join to […]

$20
Wed 18
Featured Featured January 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

BABA Monthly Meeting

Zoom

Carole leads the meeting. We're meeting virtually on Zoom. BABA meets the third Wednesday evening of each month via Zoom. Members share books, work in progress and information about book events and resources.

Thu 19
Featured Featured January 19 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Virtual Coffee Chat: Editors with Disabilities/Chronic Illnesses

Zoom

This coffee chat centers people who work as editors and are living with disability and/or chronic illness. It is open to everyone. The idea was partly inspired by an active peer group currently hosted by the Society of Authors (https://www.societyofauthors.org/Groups/Authors-Disabilities-Illnesses-Network). Group agreements that will be open for discussion at the start of the chat: * […]

Thu 19
Featured Featured January 19 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Before InDesign—PageMaker & PostScript & Macintosh Led a Revolution

Zoom

John McWade, publisher of the legendary Before & After magazine, recalls the era and steps us through time-honored key design techniques

Free
Thu 19
Featured Featured January 19 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Recurring Event PPN | Virtual Monthly Meetup

PPN | Virtual Monthly Meetup

Virtual Virtual

Hosted/Organized by: PPN This event is open to anyone in the book-publishing industry and provides a great opportunity for connection. Grab a drink and come and catch up, share news, and get advice. We generally hold virtual meetups over Zoom on the third Thursday of each month, not just because this is the safest way […]

Thu 19
Featured Featured January 19 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Writing Themselves into History: Emily and Matilda Bancroft in Journals and Letters

Mechanics' Institute


with author Kim Bancroft Writing Themselves into History offers a rich immersion in nineteenth-century California, detailing Emily and Matilda Bancroft's experiences with public life, motherhood, and business against the backdrop of San Francisco’s high society and the state’s growth amidst the tumult of the American Civil War.

Mon 23
Featured Featured January 23 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

The Koran in English – From Yusuf Ali to Sandow Birk

Zoom

For millions of Muslims, the Qur’an is sacred only in the original Arabic. Revealed to an Arab merchant Muhammad in 7th century Arabia, it calls itself “an Arabic Qur’an”. At once lyrical and adamantine, it resists translation into any other language. Yet scholars have tried to cross the barrier, rendering it into numerous classical and […]

Wed 25
Featured Featured January 25 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Fête de Colette: The Intimate Worlds of Colette

Zoom

Translator Paul Eprile in conversation with biographer Judith Thurman, moderated by writer and poet Zack Rogow An online panel of internationally renowned translators and biographers discuss Colette's recently reprinted classic novels, Cheri and The End of Cheri. Cosponsored by The New York Review of Books and City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

Thu 26
Featured Featured January 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Technical Editing Meetup

Zoom

Are you a technical editor, or interested in learning about technical editing? Join a friendly discussion of editing in technical fields. This event is free to attend and open to all editors.

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