VERY
SHORT
STORIES
Roz Chast wowed 144 enthralled patrons Monday night in the Cole, the highpoint of the AuthorsLive series so far this year and highest attendance since Bill Bryson two years ago. She presented an overview of her career, actually talking the audience through her New Yorker cartoons and doing the voices of all the characters. Roz also explained her work process and the technique she uses to do her Faberge-type eggs. She is a very funny lady and her talk was punctuated by howls of laughter from the audience. She traced her career from Brooklyn to the Rhode Island School of Design to the New Yorker to her current residence in Ridgefield. She offered a preview of a book in progress about her aging parents, both sad and funny with life drawings of their last years alternating with her usual wacky color cartoon panels of the same. We hope to have her back when the book is completed. There was the usual fascinating Q&A from the audience covering a lot of ground. It could best be described as a Love-In with her opening greeting and ending accompanied by thunderous applause. The Flinn Gallery stayed open until 9 so the audience could take in the show after the talk. We would like to tip our hat and thank the Flinn Gallery Committee, particularly York Baker and Deborah Fram, the curators of this show. We thank them for assembling this dazzling show and for getting Roz Chast to speak tonight, something we have fantasized about for years. With humor, deft, elegant drawing and luminous color the artists in the final show of the Flinn Art Gallery's 2012 - 2013 season tell "Very Short Stories." They are Roz Chast, Leslie Giuliani, Marc Rosenthal and Jackie Welsh The exhibition will run through June 19. The show is "Very Short Stories: Conceptual Illustration"
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Wayne Campbell
Program and Film Librarian
Greenwich Library
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich CT 06830
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