Join the Ridgefield Library TODAY, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., in the Combined Program Rooms for an afternoon with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, and critic-in-residence and lecturer at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. Today she will discuss So We Read On, her forthcoming book on the extraordinary "second act" of The Great Gatsby, (Little, Brown, September 2014).
Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! was published in 2005. Corrigan is also a reviewer and columnist for The Washington Post's Book World. In addition to serving on the advisory panel of The American Heritage Dictionary, she has chaired the Mystery and Suspense judges' panel of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize.
This program is part of Ridgefield's "Big Read" of The Great Gatsby. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with Arts Midwest. Support has also been received from Connecticut Humanities (CTH), a non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities that funds, creates and collaborates on hundreds of cultural programs across Connecticut each year. This program is also made possible with support from Liz and Steven Goldstone. The 2014 Big Read in Ridgefield is presented by The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts and the Ridgefield Library, along with numerous community partners.