Friends of the UNCG Libraries

Monday, January 25 : “The Impact of World War II on Segregation,” a lecture by Peter Golden, author of Wherever There is Light , which explores the rescue German–Jewish professors from the Nazis by traditionally African-American colleges and the birth of the modern civil rights movement. 4 p.m.  Hodges Reading Room, Second Floor Jackson Library. FREE. Tuesday, February 9 :  “Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor” presentation by UNCG faculty authors Jody Natalle and Jenni Simon.  4 p.m. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library 2nd floor, UNCG.  FREE. Monday, February 22 : Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion - Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley, led by Karen Weyler of the English Department. 7 p.m. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library 2nd floor, UNCG.  FREE. Monday, March 14 : Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion - Black Dogs by Ian McEwan, led by Keith Gorman of the Uni...

The following report comes from the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG, courtesy of Shawn Delgado. UNCG-Affiliated & Campus Literary Events: Trudy Lewis and Cathy Carr Alumni Fiction Reading —Thursday, March 26 th , 7:00 PM Faculty Center, UNCG Free and open to the public      From the UNCG Creative Writing MFA Program: “ The MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, The Greensboro Review , The UNCG College of Arts & Sciences, and the UNCG Alumni Association will host a fiction reading by UNCG alums Trudy Lewis and Cathy Carr on Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 PM in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.      Trudy Lewis is the author of the recently released novel, The Empire Rolls , a short story collection, The Bones of Garbo , winner of the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction, and the novel Private Correspondences , which won the William Goyen...

Friday, September 6 at UNCG & Saturday, September 7 at BOOKMARKS— A Visit with Historian James McPherson 9/6 Jackson Library Reading Room. UNCG, 1st Floor. 4 pm. 9/7 BOOKMARKS Festival, Winston-Salem  Times TBA Saturday, September 7 at BOOKMARKS & Monday, September 9 at UNCG—Storyteller, Author and Musical Artist Bill Harley 9/7 - BOOKMARKS Festival, Winston-Salem. 12:30 and 4 pm. 9/9- Elliott University Center Auditorium UNCG, 7 pm. Monday, October 21 —”Loving Jane” a public discussion led by Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly about Jane Austen and why she is so popular 200 years after Pride and Prejudice was first published (part of a series still being developed to celebrate Austen).  Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, 7 pm. Tuesday, October 29 —Author Jill McCorkle reading from her new book Life After Life and signing copies of her books, Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, 4 pm.  Saturday, November 9—Women Veterans Historical Project Luncheon and Panel Discu...

When the anonymous author of Commercial Bookbindings , a historical sketch and description of an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York, wrote in 1894, “Nobody thought of expecting the publisher to throw in a fine suit of clothes with the book,” he was commenting on the early years of what was to be the golden age of American book cover design.  The period from 1880-1920 saw the rise and decline in the use of artist/designers, and the astonishing results they could achieve with colored cloth, a few colors of ink, gold and silver, and a canvas the size of a book cover.  The Charles Adams American Trade Binding Collection at the University Libraries has a large selection of bindings concentrating on this period and particularly its zenith, from 1890-1910. To celebrate its collection and to accompany the new exhibit entitled "A Fine Suit of Clothes: American Publishers' Bindings, 1880-1920: A Progressive Exhibition,"   the University Libraries are sponsoring a pre...

Posting prepared by Shawn Delgado for the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG: UNCG-Related Literary Events: Front Porch Friday with the Galen Kipar Project —Friday, March 1 st , 4:00PM Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, 127 McIver St., UNCG Free and open to the public      Front porch Fridays are designed to be intimate events wherein songwriters share their music as well as answer your questions about their composition processes, influences, ideas about writing, etc. This month, the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts is happy to welcome two members of the Galen Kipar Project, including Aaron Balance, a current poet in the MFA Creative Writing Program at UNCG.      Based in Asheville, NC, the Galen Kipar Project has been busy touring in support of their fourth album in five years, featuring the unique sonorous music that has become the band’s trademark. Effortlessly crafting a fusion of folk, classical, jazz, an...

Monday, January 28 — Book Discussion of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God by T. M. Luhrmann, led by Dr. Ben Ramsey, Religious Studies. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 4 p.m. FREE   Wednesday, February 13 — UNCG alum Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind Than Home . Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 7 p.m. FREE   Monday, February 25 — Book Discussion of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence., led by Dr. Keith Cushman, English. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 7 p.m. FREE   Wednesday, March 6 — Christopher Hodgkins and Robert Whalen Present "The Digital Temple of George Herbert." Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 4 p.m. FREE.   Monday, March 18 — Book Discussion of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror & an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, led Dr. Karl Schleunes, History. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 7 p.m. FREE   Wednesday, March 20 — Joseph ...

Among the programming and service highlights of 2012: January ·          BOOKMARKS Presents a Conversation with Kim Edwards ·          “Learn: Space: Learn” presented by Patrick Lee Lucas, Interior Architecture.   February ·          A Dickens of a Celebration (Bicentennial celebration of the birth of Charles Dickens) March ·          Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists , and The Last Dickens   ·          Saving the Hansen House” documentary film screening ·          The Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner “A Celebration of the Blues” with William Ferris and Lorenzo (Logie) Meachum April ·          The third of six faculty-led book discussions hel...