Tuesday, September 10
Zoom, 7 p.m. 
“I hear of Sherlock everywhere,” declared Mycroft Holmes, the legendary detective’s brother, in a story published in 1893. Today, as the fame of Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic creation stretches across a third century, these words are truer than ever.
At the moment we’re seeing a vigorous Baker Street renaissance of movies, plays, and modern-day television adaptations. Recent books and graphic novels find Sherlock Holmes trading bon mots with Henry James, teaming up with Deadpool, escaping the island of Dr. Moreau, and squaring off against a zombie horde. You can also pick up Sherlock-themed tarot decks, rubber duckies, crew socks and–for undercover work–a “sexy detective” outfit featuring a deerstalker and pipe.
And the digital landscape is ablaze with blogs, fanfic, twitter feeds, podcasts, and Benedict Cumberbatch sightings. “What is going on?” asks one recent commentator. “In a world of action heroes and cat-video memes, how does a 130-year-old detective in a velvet dressing gown hold his own? How, and why, has Sherlock Holmes – of all things – endured?”
Join us on September 10 for a Zoom meeting with members of the Baker Street Irregulars, America’s foremost Sherlockian literary society. Hosted by Dan Stashower, author of Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, the group will hold a spirited discussion of the enduring phenomenon of Sherlock Holmes, carrying on a longstanding tradition that one early Irregular called “disputation, confrontation, and dialectical hullabaloo.”
As Sherlock Holmes himself would have said, “Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
Joining Dan are: