Invitations are now being sent for the Greenwich Arts Council’s
annual Literary Lights: A Book Festival, which will be held Thursday,
November 12. Featured author this year is world-renowned architecture
and design critic Paul Goldberger, who will speak that afternoon at
a luncheon at Chelmsford, a historic McKim, Mead, and White designed
home in Greenwich.
Since
1997 Goldberger has been Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, writing
the magazine’s “Sky Line” column. He began his career
at The New York Times, where in 1984 his writing was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Distinguished Criticism. In addition Goldberger has served
as Dean of Parsons New School for Design, and holds a tenured position
as the Joseph Urban Professor of Design at Parsons.
He
is the author of many books, including “Up From Zero: Politics,
Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York” and “The City
Observed: New York”. In Greenwich Goldberger will be discussing
his new book entitled “Why Architecture Matters”, which deals
with how we respond emotionally as well as intellectually to architecture.
Tickets for the luncheon are $100 (GAC members) and $135 (non-members)
per person, and include a signed copy of “Why Architecture Matters”.
Literary
Lights continues that same evening of November 12 when over twenty nationally
prominent authors are brought together for literary discussion, book
signings, sales, and refreshments at the Council’s headquarters,
299 Greenwich Avenue, from 6-8:30 pm. This part of the event is free
and the public is encouraged to attend.
The
committee for the festival is headed by co-chairs Jane Finn and Christine
Young, in collaboration with Barrett Bookstore, Darien. To purchase
tickets for the luncheon, or to obtain more information, call the Greenwich
Arts Council at 203-862-6750. A complete listing of participating authors
may be found at www.greenwicharts.org. Special support for the Festival
is provided in part by Garden Catering and R. S. Granoff, Architects.
|
Author
|
Title
|
Category
|
| Christina
Baker Kline |
Bird in Hand |
Fiction |
| Susan
Bartlett Crater & Libby Cameron + Mita Corsini Bland (watercolorist) |
Sister
Parish Design: On Decorating |
Non-fiction |
| Philip
Caputo |
Crossers |
Fiction |
| Richard
Conniff |
Swimming
With Piranhas at Feeding Time |
Non-fiction |
| Florence
Fabricant |
Park
Avenue Pot Luck Celebrations |
Cookbook |
| Chuck
Fischer |
Angels
– A Pop-Up Book |
|
| Tad
Friend |
Cheerful
Money: Me, My Family and
And the Last Days of Wasp Splendor |
Non-fiction,
memoir |
Paul
Goldberger
(Luncheon speaker) |
Why
Architecture Matters |
Non-fiction |
| William
Grimes |
Appetite
City: A Culinary History of New York |
|
| Luc
Hardy |
Arctic
Transitions; Greenland Impressions |
Non-fiction |
| Mary
Ann Hoberman |
All
Kinds of Families!, Strawberry Hill, The Tree that Time Built
|
Fiction |
| Victoria
Kann |
Goldilicious (NYT #1 bestseller) |
Childrens |
| Joseph
Kanon |
Stardust |
Fiction |
| Sasa
Mahr-Batuz & Andy Pforzheimer |
The
Barcelona Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Wine and Life |
Cookbook |
| Max
McCalman |
Mastering
Cheese |
|
| Samantha
Nestor |
Living With Wine |
Non-fiction |
| Patricia
T. O’Conner |
Woe
Is I: Updated and Expanded |
|
| Joyce
Purnick |
Mike
Bloomberg: The Mogul and the Mayor |
|
| Sam
Roberts |
Only
in New York: A Times Reporter’s Exploration of the World’s
Most Fascinating,
Frustrating and Irrepressible City |
Non-fiction
essays |
| Andrew
Ross Sorkin |
Too
Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought
to Save the Financial System from Crisis |
|
| Edward
Rutherfurd |
New
York: the Novel |
Fiction |
| Laney
Salisbury |
Provenance:
How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art |
Non-fiction |
| Kate
Walbert |
A
Short History of Women |
Fiction |
Meli-Melo
Solaia
Figaro
Bistro
Mediterraneo
Terra
Thataway
Café
Morello
Bistro
Barcelona
Café
Literary
Lights 2009 is made possible through the generous Sponsorship Support
of:
R.S. Granoff Architects;
Halper Owens Architects, LLC;
Jane Finn; Norbert and Christine Young.
