Our Last Friday Activity of the Semester was Coordinated with Olchar’s “Becoming a Bookmaster” Class

Olchar brought in some of the strangest, rarest, oldest, nicest, and most fun examples from his archival libraries of underground and countercultural books from the 18th-20th Centuries. From 18th Century newspapers, to an abolitionist book drawn by kids in 1850, to a one-of-a-kind Serbian Surrealist collaged book, to contemporary avant-garde Russian zines, we informally browsed and explored stacks of volumes (carefully), talked about the stories behind them, and experienced the wide variety of books in their forms, contexts, and meanings to the people who own and read them.