Book Talk: Witold Rybczynski, Mysteries of the Mall

Book Talk & Signing with Acclaimed Author Witold Rybczynski*
With a special introduction by New York Times editor Constance Rosenblum**

$10 for LW! members & students, $20 for non-members
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Books available for purchase
In partnership with Book Culture, an Upper West Side independent bookstore

Please join us for a book signing after the talk!

Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays is a deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes. Don’t miss this chance to meet
Witold Rybczynski (in his third LW! appearance) as he casts a seasoned
critical eye on the modern scene.

Rybczynski’s book ranges over topics as varied as shopping malls, Central Park, the Opéra Bastille, and America’s shrinking cities. Along the way, he examines our post-9/11 obsession with security, the revival of the big-city library, the rise of college towns, our fascination with vacation homes, and Disney’s planned community of Celebration.  Rybczynski ponders the role of global metropolises in an age of tourism and reflects on what kinds of places attract us in the modern city.

*Witold Rybczynski is the author of award-winning books Home: The History of an Idea; A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century; City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World; The Most Beautiful House in the World; and How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit. Rybczynski has also written about architecture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times.

**Constance Rosenblum writes for the Real Estate section of the New York Times and was the editor of the paper’s City and Arts & Leisure sections.  She is the author of Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, which was named an editor’s choice by The New Yorker, and Boulevard of Dreams, a history of the Grand Concourse.  Rosenblum is also the author of Habitats: Private Lives in the City, which is a collection of pieces from her New York Times column, Habitats (1990s-2012).

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