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Catie Marron with Adam Gopnik, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door

Over half of the world’s citizens now live in cities, and this number is rapidly growing. At the heart of these municipalities is the square—the defining urban public space since the dawn of democracy in Ancient Greece. Each of the eighteen squares profiled in this book stands for a larger theme in history: cultural, geopolitical, anthropological, or architectural, and each of the eighteen luminary writers has contributed his or her own innate talent, prodigious research, and local knowledge. This significant anthology shows the city square in new light. 

In this event, City Squares editor Catie Marron was joined in conversation by Adam Gopnik, whose contribution to the book considers Paris’ Place des Vosges. 

Catie Marron’s career has included investment banking, magazine journalism, and public service. She is currently chair of the board of directors of Friends of the High Line; a trustee of The New York Public Library, where she was chairman of the board for seven years; and a contributing editor of Vogue magazine.

Author of the beloved bestseller Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Reviews and Criticism and of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.