Photo of the four graduate students in front of a stretched goat skin. On March 20th, 2024, four graduate students from the Rutgers English Deparment were sponsored by the Rutgers Book Initiative and the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium to attend a five-hour tour and workshop at Pergamena: Handmade Parchments and Leathers. This event was … Read More
The Rutgers Book Initiative invites you to this symposium with speakers Karl Berglund and Justin Tackett.
Self-Publishing Workshop Come learn abotu the world of spirit duplication. Bookseller and historian of radical publishing Brian Cassidy will provide an overview of these technologies and their use in early … Read More
The Second Colloquium on Independent Publishing Come hear Dante Gonzalez present his "Edición, Literatura y Pensamiento en Lenguas Originarias" (event in Spanish) and the subsequent conversation "Independent Publishing and the Sociology of Literature" with John Thompson, Ana Cecillia Calle, and Gustavo Guerrero, with a response by Marcy Schwartz. Thursday April 18 | 1:00 pm and … Read More
RFS Novi introduces the studio
A close-up image of a pumpkin being cut from waste paper. October 4th, from 10am to 5pm Join the Scarlet Letterpress in Murray 309 and 302, where we will … Read More
The Rutgers Book Initiative’s Scarlet Letterpress’s First Birthday. Join us in printing aging- and fall-related poems! Friday November 8 | 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Murray Hall 309 | … Read More
Paper Making Workshop with Rejin Leys and Professor Brad Evans's Class "Writing Forests" Join us in recycling printed waste matter into new, usable paper, demonstrated by Rejin Leys for … Read More
On the day of love, Friday, February 14th from 10:00am to 2:00pm the Rutgers Initiative for the Book will host a card-printing event in Murray Hall 309. Join us … Read More
