To coincide with start of a new school year, Panopticon Gallery presents Bibliophile, a studious exhibition for lovers of photography and the printed page. This show features works by Thomas Allen, Carolyn Hampton, Sean Kernan, Aline Smithson, Mark Douglas, Fawn Potash, and Thomas Marr. These photographers turn their cameras toward their libraries, bringing unique perspectives and photographic processes to the book as subject.

The beloved teddy bear at the center of Winnie-the-Pooh, first published in 1926 and translated into more than 50 languages, is one of the most famous children’s book characters of all time. This exhibition traces the history and universal appeal of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard through nearly 200 works drawn primarily from the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Presented in a truly immersive display, the original drawings, letters, photographs, and early editions, along with whimsical ephemera, take visitors on a journey exploring how the stories of Pooh and his friends Eeyore, Kanga and Roo, Owl, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, and Christopher Robin have stood the test of time and continue to delight generations of readers around the world.

You’re invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Leonardo, the leading journal at the intersection of technology and the arts, at the MIT Press Bookstore. Join us for a festive evening of conversation about the journal’s history and its long-standing relationship with MIT. The event features: Roger Malina, Executive Editor of Leonardo; Danielle Siembieda, Managing Director of Leonardo; Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access at the MIT Press; and Leonardo authors Elizabeth Goldring and Joan Brigham. Reception to follow.

Join us to celebrate the Summer 2018 issue of Emerson College’s own Ploughshares literary journal and hear firsthand from Guest Editor Jill McCorkle.

How does the animal world deal with death?  In Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death (2012) from beetles to bald eagles, ravens to wolves, Bernd Heinrich reveals the fascinating and mostly hidden post-death world that occurs around us constantly, while examining the ancient and important role we too play as scavengers, connecting death to life.

Each month, the Mount Auburn Book Club meets to discuss a selected work related to one of Mount Auburn’s many facets. Selections range from books on history, natural history, horticulture, art, architecture, preservation, and wildlife to books written by or about those now buried and commemorated here. The Book Club meets in Story Chapel on the second Thursday of each month. Coffee and tea are provided. Free.

Join us for a meet & greet with Lillian Li, author of the hit debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant. Tickets $30 per person includes book and light dinner. Seating is limited. Purchase your ticket by Wednesday, October 10th. All proceeds support BCNC programs for children, youth, and families.

Say farewell to the beloved literary series organized by Timothy Gager, with an evening of readings by Elizabeth Graver, Amy Dresner, Rusty Barnes, and Nadine Darling.

Join School Library Journal for the most anticipated librarian-only gathering of the year and be informed, inspired, and entertained by the best authors, editors, and publishers in the industry. Spend the day discussing the latest trends and get the inside scoop on the hottest books in the world of children’s and young adult literature.

This event includes a full day of panels and speaker presentations by celebrated authors as well as breakfast and lunch. Attendees enjoy access to free ARCs and an opportunity to network with colleagues from around the country in an intimate library-centric setting. Get a first look at exciting titles due out this fall and walk away with bags filled with books and inspiring ideas for your libraries and classrooms.

Boston Center for the Arts and Bodega team up to present the second annual Boston Art Book Fair on October 12–14 in the Mills Gallery, Black Box and Plaza Theatres, Martin Hall and BCA Plaza. The second largest art book fair on the east coast, this curated event will feature an eclectic, international mix of nearly 100 exhibitors, including artists, publishers, independent presses, zines, bookmakers and creative print projects of all sorts, with free admission for the public on Saturday and Sunday, October 13 and 14, and a ticketed Preview Party on Friday, October 12.

Be a part of our celebration of print art in all of its forms, from album art to zines! Drawing on Boston’s rich heritage of printed matter, its thriving counter-culture and vibrant visual arts scene, the Boston Art Book Fair celebrates innovative fine art and academic publishers, independent artists and galleries, antiquarian collectors and everyone in between. Visit bostonartbookfair.com for info and photos from the inaugural 2017 Boston Art Book Fair.

Please invite 3 of your book loving friends to help us spread the word!

Everyone’s “go to” book sale happens TWICE in October in celebration of the Boston Book Festival! Join us from 10-4 on October 13th at the Central Library in Copley Square. Load up on books to read while your apple pie bakes. Bag up hardcovers and paperbacks in all genres for $2 or less. And don’t forget our premium book corner, a competitively priced inventory of higher end books and ephemera. Our inventory comes from donations and library discards, so you never know what you might find! We have CDs, DVDs, records, and more!

The sale is sponsored by the City-Wide Friends of the Boston Public Library, a 501(c)3 non-profit affiliate of the BPL. All proceeds benefit the off-budget and programming needs of the BPL and its 24 neighborhood branches. We recently voted to fund programming at the branches and an additional Bibliocycle!

For further information contact us at cwfbpl@hotmail.com or call us at (617) 859-2341. Visit our website at www.citywidefriendsbpl.org and follow us on Twitter @cwfbpl.

Mark your calendars: DeWitt Henry will read from and sign copies of Sweet Marjoram at the launch Oct. 14, 7:00-9:00 pm, at the Plough and Stars, 912 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, where Ploughshares and his editing/writing career began nearly 48 years ago. Introduction by Marc Vincenz.

Join the MIT Press Bookstore for a reading to launch Using Electricity, a new series of computer generated books from Counterpath, meant to reward reading in conventional and unconventional ways. Featured readers are Ranjit Bhatnagar, Li Zilles, Milton Läufer, and series editor Nick Montfort.

Ranjit Bhatnagar works in music, installation, and text, with a particular interest in algorithmic techniques and in improvisation at all stages of creation. His book Encomials: Sonnets from Pentametron is a book of sonnets written by computer and by the world.

TELL-ALL is a quarterly literary performance series celebrating all things memoir. Co-sponsored by GrubStreet and curated by alumni of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, we invite award-winning writers, best-selling authors, and emerging stars to share their first-person stories.For one night per calendar season starting this October, we’ll take over the popular Mass. Ave. nightspot and turn it into a creative confessional. Each event will feature one headliner and four local writers. Our goal is to foster a community of honesty and discovery, through the shared listening experience of real stories. We can handle the truth!

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Carol A. Stabile to discuss her book, The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist.

At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence. The Broadcast 41 describes what American radio and television lost when these women—among them Dorothy Parker, Lena Horne, and Gypsy Rose Lee— were blacklisted, documenting their aspirations and achievements.

Carol A. Stabile is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project takes their production of MACBETH outdoors for one night only! Fog x Macbeth at the Arnold Arboretum!

Fog x Macbeth brings Shakespeare’s tragedy of political ambition, blood, and flawed humans into the landscape of the Arnold Arboretum, and the art and shifting atmosphere of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculpture. The play’s live, and site-specific, performance will resonate with Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape design and Fog x FLO, Nakaya’s fog installation throughout Boston’s Emerald Necklace park system. Actors’ Shakespeare Project explores robust language, resonate stories, and the deeply human characters in Shakespeare’s plays through productions, that like Macbeth in the fog, are informed by the spaces in which they happen. All seating is free and on the lawn.

Witches, murder, intrigue–all will be revealed in the fog…or will it?

Bring a blanket, a low chair, a picnic. Dress accordingly for the weather.

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA)