THE GREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL PRESENTS
PULITZER-PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND AUTHOR
PAUL GOLDBERGER
AS FEATURED SPEAKER AT LITERARY LIGHTS:2009

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.

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

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
Wendy Walker Social Lives Fiction

The following restaurants will give a 10% discount on food purchases to all patrons of the Literary Lights evening program. Patrons should provide a receipt of books purchased; advance reservations are suggested if possible. This discount holds for the evening of November 12 only.

Meli-Melo
Solaia
Figaro Bistro
Mediterraneo
Terra
Thataway Cafe
Morello Bistro
Barcelona Cafe
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.