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Introducing the Fine Print Book Club
Friends and members ofThe Historic New Orleans Collection already know that our publications play an essential role in accomplishing our mission to study and preserve the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Our award-winning titles bring contemporary scholarship about the region to bookshelves and libraries across the country, where they continue to spark further research and discussion.
We are proud to introduce a new way to explore our publications: the Fine Print Book Club. Dreamed up during last year’s Laussat Society Gala, Fine Print provides an intimate forum for readers to discuss The Collection’s books directly with the authors and editors responsible for putting them into print. We plan to hold a gathering approximately two months after the release of each new publication.
In June, over lunch in The Collection’s beautiful Counting House, the Fine Print Book Club will discuss our latest offering, A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies, with the book’s editor, Erin M. Greenwald. Greenwald, who wrote the introduction and annotations for the book, is a curator and historian at The Collection. She and other members of THNOC’s editorial team will foster discussion about Greenwald’s sleuthing in French archives; the persistence of translator Teri Chalmers; and the particular circumstances faced by the author, Marc-Antoine Caillot, as he journeyed from Paris to the New World. Participants will receive a set of questions to help frame their reading of the book and spark ideas for our conversation. We look forward to a lively discussion as participants bring their own questions and thoughts about this fascinating tale to the table. Those who care to stay afterward can tour the exhibit Pipe Dreams: Louisiana under the French Company of the Indies,
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The Collection launched A Company Man in mid-April with a lecture by Greenwald that drew a standing-room-only crowd; she and the book were recently featured on WWNO’s The Reading Life. In order to foster thoughtful, focused conversation, we are limiting the group to 15 people per session and encourage participants to come prepared with questions and observations. Gatherings will be held on Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29, from noon to
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Euon is required and is $10. vili increase to $20 after June 20. Because seating is limited, tut encoterage you to register early.
Participants can purchase copies of A Company Man at The Shop at The Collection, local booksellers, and major online retailers (learn more about the book at ivww .acompanymanbook.com). For reservations, call (504) 523-4662 and indicate which session you would like to attend.
6 Volume XXX, Number 3 — Summer 2013