Join us for a spring edition of our popular Show & Tell event in which the focus of both our speakers will be international literature. Ticknor Society members Zac Marconi and Christine Jacobson will be our presenters, with Zac talking about various editions of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and Christine Jacobson discussing her collection of works by Barbara Pym.

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a Russian playwright and novelist. An uncensored version of The Master and the Margarita, was not published in the Soviet Union until 1973.

Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was a prolific British novelist, and Christine is an active collector of revivals of her works.

This year's Annual Meeting, our featured speaker will be Professor Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. A member of the History Department, Ann specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, and her research interests include the history of the book and of reading.