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• Edward Wilson-Lee on Christopher Columbus, His Son and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library

  • When
    11/20/2019
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    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Union League Club, Union League Club, 65 West Jackson

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  November Dinner

  Two venerable institutions – one exciting event – The ULCC Leighton Library is pleased to partner with the Caxton Club to welcome British scholar, Edward Wilson-Lee as he leads you into the strange and wonderful world of Hernando Colón, younger and illegitimate son of the explorer Columbus, who set out to equal and surpass his father's achievement by building the greatest library the world had ever known. Hernando played many roles during his life--companion on his father's final and fateful expedition, chronicler of his father's life, cartographer, lexicographer, courtier and botanist--but his true passion was for books, which he collected on a scale previously unimagined. Hernando's life was not just a voyage into the new and rapidly expanding world of print, though: it was also a race against time, to complete his knowledge engine and rescue his father's memory before it was too late.

  “The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books” will be on sale for signing during the cocktail hour and after the dinner for $18. Books can be pre-ordered when making a reservation.

  To celebrate Caxton Club’s 17 years of grant giving for book arts, bibliography, zines, and print culture studies, the following Chicago book artists will be displaying their work during the cocktail reception starting at 5:00 pm in the George N. Leighton Library:

  Hannah Batsel | Ben Blount | Melissa Jay Craig | Jennifer Farrell | Ken Gerleve | Karen Hanmer | Craig Jobson | Audrey Niffeneger | Mardy Sears | Jamie Weaver | Don Widmer

  The cocktail reception (5-6pm) and program (6pm) will be followed immediately by dinner. Beverages available for $6-$12. Three-course dinner: $66. Reservations are required and must be received no later than NOON, Monday, November 18. Payment will be required for dinner reservations cancelled after that time and for no-shows. Reserve at caxtonclub.org, call 312-255-3710, or e-mail caxtonclub@newberry.org

  
  

  
  

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• Chicago by the Book: Ethical Humanist Society Panel Discussion

  • When
    12/08/2019
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    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 North Lincoln Avenue, Skokie IL 60076

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• Books that Built Chicago

  • When
    12/11/2019
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    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Phone 773-235-2523

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  Free tickets are required and available by clicking here starting November 1, 2019

  
  

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• Nina Barrett on Leopold & Loeb

  • When
    12/13/2019
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    11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago

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  December Luncheon

  
  

  The Chicago press labeled it the crime of the century and breathlessly reported about the eyeglasses, the typewriter, and the interrogations that solved it. Editorialists used it to decry Jazz Age excesses. A playwright drew on it and Hitchcock’s Rope brought it to the screen. Ira Levin’s Compulsion was inspired by it.

  But we are going to hear about a different detective story, one that began in Northwestern’s Special Collections, with a trove of documents that in the normal course of events might have been lost to fire, flood, mildew, or bureaucratic carelessness. Instead, out of the linear feet of letters, court pleadings, transcripts, psychological evaluations, and more, the real tale emerges.

  Join Nina Barrett, whose book The Leopold & Loeb Files is on the shelf at her store down the alley in Evanston, and whose work at the Deering Library brings Darrow for the defense and more to life so vividly.

  And of course, you will be able to purchase books and have them signed!

  December 13 Luncheon: Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson Boulevard. Buffet opens at 11:30 am; program 12:30-1:30. Luncheon is $35. Program free but please let us know you’re coming. Reservations or cancellations for lunch by noon Wednesday the week of the luncheon. Reserve and pay at caxtonclub.org, call 312-255-3710, or e-mail caxtonclub@newberry.org

  
  

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