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Roz Chast has loved to draw cartoons since she was a child growing up in Brooklyn. She attended Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Painting because it seemed more artistic. However, soon after graduating, she reverted to type and began drawing cartoons once again. 

Her cartoons have been published in many other magazines besides The New Yorker, including Scientific American, the Harvard Business Review, Redbook, and Mother Jones. She also illustrated The Alphabet from A to Y, with Bonus Letter, Z, the best-selling children's book by Steve Martin. Her most recent book is a comprehensive compilation of her favorite cartoons called Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons of Roz Chast, 1978-2006. 

The New Times Book Review raves about the wacky world of Roz Chast and her neurotic New Yorkers, saying "Ms. Chast's voice...is delightfully her own, as idiosyncratic and instantly recognizable as the voice of any poet or novelist." 

Roz Chast has received honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College, the Pratt Institute and the Art Institute of Boston. She lives in Ridgefield, CT with her husband and two children. 

AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary is made possible through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees and contributions by generous donors. Books will be available for purchase and signing at each event through Diane's Books. This series is free and open to all, but seating in the Cole Auditorium is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Wayne Campbell at (203) 622-7922 or visit www.greenwichlibrary.org/authorslive. 

 

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During the golden age of movies, Bautzer was famous for romancing leading ladies. From boardrooms to bedrooms, Bautzer dominated the Hollywood tabloids from the 1930s through 50s. But Bautzer wasn't just a Don Juan; he was also the most powerful attorney the entertainment industry has ever known, representing the richest man in the world -- Howard Hughes.

 

"James Gladstone's biography of the remarkable Bautzer is the first one to tell his story, and it's filled with the kind of juicy inside information about everyone from Lana Turner and Joan Crawford to Ingrid Bergman and beyond that makes for a very lively, satisfying read." --- Robert Osborne, Hollywood historian and host of Turner Classic Movies 

James Gladstone is the Executive Vice President of Business and Legal affairs at Lionsgate, a leading global entertainment company. In addition to discussing the book, Gladstone will also discuss his experiences in the motion picture business over the last 28 years working for the companies that released such pictures as "Dirty Dancing", "The Blair Witch Project", "The Hunger Games", and the Mad Men" television series. He holds a BFA in film production from New York University and a law degree from Georgetown University. 

AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary is made possible through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees and contributions by generous donors. Books will be available for purchase and signing at each event through Diane's Books. This series is free and open to all, but seating in the Cole Auditorium is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Wayne Campbell at (203) 622-7922 or visit www.greenwichlibrary.org/authorslive. 

You can follow Greenwich Library on Twitter @GWLibrary or on Facebook.

Greenwich Reads Together is a community-wide reading experience that engages all of Greenwich in exploring a single book. The community is invited to join any of the programs, which are free and open to the public. 

Click here to see the complete list of programs and discussion groups.

Greenwich Reads Together 2013 is supported by Lead Sponsor Wiggin and Dana, LLP as well as Connecticut Center for the Book at Connecticut Humanities, Friends of Greenwich Library, Greenwich Library Board of Trustees, Dr. Laura and Mr. Robert Glanville, Rotary Club of Greenwich and Whole Foods Market Greenwich. 

Visit www.greenwichreadstogether.org to find book, film and music suggestions for further exploration, as well as discussion guides, links to interviews with the author and much more. 

On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism, When the Emperor was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines. Author Julie Otsuka is a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and, most recently, she was awarded Frances Femina Foreign Novel prize. Her book The Buddha in the Attic won the PEN/ Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. 

Greenwich Reads Together is a community-wide reading experience which will engage all of Greenwich in exploring a single book. Several community organizations are leading this initiative including Greenwich Library, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich Historical Society, Greenwich Alliance for Education, Greenwich Pen Women, Greenwich Public Schools and private schools and Friends of Greenwich Library. Last spring, almost 20 community organizations and more than 3,000 Greenwich residents participated in events. Numerous adult, children and teen book discussions were held across Greenwich. Greenwich Reads Together 2013 is supported by Lead Sponsor Wiggin and Dana, LLP as well as Connecticut Center for the Book at Connecticut Humanities, Friends of Greenwich Library, Greenwich Library Board of Trustees, Dr. Laura and Mr. Robert Glanville, Rotary Club of Greenwich and Whole Foods Market Greenwich. For more information, visit www.greenwichreadstogether.org.