Since 2004, Elizabeth has given over a hundred readings, interviews, and talks, and is a warm, engaging reader and story teller. When Implosion was released in 2018, Elizabeth hit the road and gave over twenty book talks in bookstores and libraries in NYC, Boston, Maine, Cincinnati and Indiana. When Sailing at the Edge of Disaster is released, she will give both in-person and Zoom talks, conversations, and readings. Please contact Elizabeth to arrange a reading at your bookstore, library, or for a local group.
Upcoming Events
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Past Events
Saturday, November 10, 2018, noon to 1 pm
WBFY 100.9 FM Belfast, Maine Community Radio
Date: Friday, October 26, 2018, 6:30pm
2692 Madison Road
Cincinnati OH 45208
Contact: 513 396 8960
“Growing Up Modern”
Wednesday, November 24, 2018, 1-3 pm
6060 Far Hills Ave
Centerville, OH 45459
Contact: Georgia Mergler GMergler@wcpl.lib.oh.us
Joining weeks of programs celebrating the newly renovated and expanded modernist Woodbourne Library, originally designed by Cincinnati’s nationally recognized architect Woodie Garber, his daughter, Elizabeth W. Garber, author of Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter, will give a presentation about her father’s work. Elizabeth grew up in a glass house of her father’s design, which was built in 1965, the same year as the library. She’ll give a visual presentation and read selections from her memoir to show what growing up Modern in the 1960’s was like in Glendale, an Ohio village originally settled in the 1860’s.
Tuesday, October 23, 6:30 pm
536 Fifth Street
Columbus IN 47201
Contact: 812-379-1272
I am very pleased to be spending two days in the remarkable city of Columbus, Indiana, known for an abundance of Modern Architecture in 40 major buildings. Find out more at the Columbus Visitors Center. https://columbus.in.us/
Saturday, October 20, 10am-4pm
Duke Energy Convention Center
525 Elm St
Cincinnati, OH 45202
contact@booksbythebanks.org
October 19, 2018 3:30pm
University of Cincinnati DAAP (College of Design Art Architecture Planning)
A presentation by his daughter Elizabeth W. Garber and conversation with Patrick Snadon, Emeritus Professor
5470 Aronoff
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016
Contact: 513-556-4933
Woodie Garber’s design solutions were often driven by concern with thermal comfort and energy conservation–part of what we now call “sustainability” in architecture. Elizabeth and Patrick will discuss several of Garber’s buildings that incorporated passive and active solutions, including the Sander Hall thermal glass, the movable sun-screens on Procter Hall, the use of the reflective milk glass panels, sculptural elements, etc. Elizabeth will read short selections from Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter where her father explained his intentions for certain buildings.
October 12-14, 2018 day and time TBA
Burlington Book Festival
UVM Alumni House Silver Pavilion
61 Summit Street
Burlington, VT
(802) 658-3328
Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser give a joint reading/discussion on the Wages of Modernism. We will read from our books and talk about what the modernism of the second half of the twentieth century was about, particularly on a personal, individual level. Baron’s book is Legends of the Slow Explosion: 11 Modern Lives, and Elizabeth’s book is Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018 6:30pm
39 Pine Street, Orono, Me.
Contact: 207-866-5060
Tuesday, September 18, 2018. 6:30 pm.
106 High Street
Belfast, Maine 04915
Contact:info@belfastlibrary.org
207-338-3884
Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser give a joint reading/discussion on the Wages of Modernism. We will read from our books and talk about what the modernism of the second half of the twentieth century was about, particularly on a personal, individual level. Baron’s book is Legends of the Slow Explosion: 11 Modern Lives, and Elizabeth’s book is Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10-11am
Skidompha Library in Conjunction with Maine Coast Books
Chats with Champions
184 Main St.
Damariscotta, ME 04543
207-563-5513
Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser give a joint reading/discussion on the Wages of Modernism. We will read from our books and talk about what the modernism of the second half of the twentieth century was about, particularly on a personal, individual level. Baron’s book is Legends of the Slow Explosion: 11 Modern Lives, and Elizabeth’s book is Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.
Monday, September 17, 5:30-7pm
338 Main Street
P.O. Box 157
Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679
Contact: circulation@swharbor.lib.me.us
207-244-7065
Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser give a joint reading/discussion on the Wages of Modernism. We will read from our books and talk about what the modernism of the second half of the twentieth century was about, particularly on a personal, individual level. Baron’s book is Legends of the Slow Explosion: 11 Modern Lives, and Elizabeth’s book is Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.
Thursday, September 13, 2018 7pm.
135 Main Street
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
Contact: rysenechal@kellogghubbard.org
Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser give a joint reading/discussion on the Wages of Modernism. We will read from our books and talk about what the modernism of the second half of the twentieth century was about, particularly on a personal, individual level. Baron’s book is Legends of the Slow Explosion: 11 Modern Lives, and Elizabeth’s book is Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7 pm
10 The Green
Woodstock, Vermont 05091
Contact: normanwilliams.org
Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser give a joint reading/discussion on the Wages of Modernism. We will read from our books and talk about what the modernism of the second half of the twentieth century was about, particularly on a personal, individual level. Baron’s book is Legends of the Slow Explosion: 11 Modern Lives, and Elizabeth’s book is Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.
Wednesday, August 22, 6:30 pm
1110 Copper Ridge Lane
Ketchikan, Alaska
Contact: 907-225-3331 library@firstcitylibraries.org
Books available from Parnassus Books in Ketchikan
Sunday, July 29, 2-3:30pm
Cushing Public Library
39 Cross Road in the Cushing Community Center
Cushing, ME 04563
(207) 354-8860
Contact: Ellen Goldsmith egoldsmith43@gmail.com
Thursday, July 19, pm
55 Main Street
Camden, ME 04843
Contact: info@librarycamden.org
Saturday, July 14th, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Boothbay Railway Village
586 Wiscasset Rd
Boothbay, ME 04537
Contact: 207 633.4727
Thursday, July 12, 2018 7 pm
1 Monument Square
Portland, Maine 04101
Contact: info@longfellowbooks.com
Tuesday, July 10, 5:30-7pm
145 Harlow Street
Bangor, ME 04401
(207) 947-8336
Contact: bplill@bpl.lib.me.us.
Thursday, June 28, 2018 6:30 Reception, 7pm Program
414 Walnut St. #1100
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Contact: mercantileinfo@mercantilelibrary.com
Elizabeth W. Garber will give a presentation and reading from her new book, Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter. Her talk will span the heritage of her grandfather, F.W.Garber, whose iconic buildings still grace the city, and her father, Woodie Garber, whose radically modern buildings are rapidly disappearing, and what it was like to grow up in a home devoted to modernism.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 7 pm
800 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Contact: Chris Smith 513-369-6900
Elizabeth Garber’s memoir, Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter, focuses on how her family was caught in a collision between modern architecture, radical social change, and madness in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s in Cincinnati. Daughter of modern architect, Woodie Garber, who designed the Cincinnati Public Library in 1950, Elizabeth’s talk includes a slideshow of some of the work of “Cincinnati’s most extreme, experimental, and creative Modernist architect.” (Patrick Snadon, UC emeritus Professor)
Tuesday, June 26, 6pm. Reception, Program, & Dinner
Sponsored by Glendale Heritage Preservationists (GHP)
Location: Meritage Restaurant
40 Village Square
Glendale, OH 45246
Make Reservations with GHP: Email GHP@fuse.net Telephone 513.771.8722
Built in 1965, the Garber family residence has design roots which include the influence of 1930’s designs of French modernist Le Corbusier, the traditions of German stonemasons in Cincinnati, and Garber’s own innovations to deal with the weather of the Midwest. The “Glass House” as it was called locally was a shock to the neighbors in the 1960’s but due to the landscaping the Garber family did themselves, the house is now mostly hidden from view. Elizabeth Garber will give a presentation with images of their family home, show construction photos, and will read selections about the house from her memoir, Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter.