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SUMMARY:Anka Muhlstein reads from her new book Monsieur Proust's Library
DESCRIPTION:Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters\, children and parents\, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels.\nIn this wonderfully entertaining book\, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein\, the author of Balzac’s Omelette\, draws out these themes in Proust’s work and life\, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time\, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/anka-muhlstein-reads-from-her-new-book-monsieur-prousts-library/
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SUMMARY:Christine Schutt reads from her new book Prosperous Friends
DESCRIPTION:Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich\, dense\, fevered\, exactly right and even eerily beautiful\,” Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty. In her new novel\, Schutt delivers a pitch-perfect\, timeless and original work on the spectacle of love. \nProsperous Friends follows the evolution of a young couple’s marriage as it is challenged by the quandaries of longing and sexual self-discovery. The glamorous and gifted Ned Bourne and his pretty wife\, Isabel\, travel to London\, New York\, and Maine in hopes of realizing their artistic promise\, but their quest for sexual fulfillment is less assured. Past lovers and new infatuations\, doubt and indifference threaten to bankrupt the marriage. The Bournes’ fantasies for their future finally give way to a deepened and mature perspective in the company of an older\, celebrated artist\, Clive Harris\, and his wife\, Dinah\, a poet. With compassionate insight\, Schutt explores the divide between those like Clive and Dinah who seem to prosper in love and those like Ned and Isabel who feel themselves condemned to yearn for it.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christine-schutt-reads-from-her-new-book-prosperous-friends/
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SUMMARY:Kathy Kriger reads from Rick's Cafe
DESCRIPTION:For more than 60 years\, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick’s Café Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot. It was a Hollywood fantasy—until Kathy Kriger came along\, that is\, and decided after 9/11 to bring the imaginary gin joint to life. In Rick’s Cafe\, she takes us through souk back alleys\, the Marché Central’s overflowing food stalls\, and the shadowy Moroccan business world\, all while producing\, directing\, casting\, and playing lead actress in her own story. Instead of letters of transit\, she begged for letters of credit; the governor of Casablanca watched her back instead of Captain Renault; and at the piano\, playing “As Time Goes By\,” sits not Sam but Issam. She encountered paper pushers\, absent architects\, dedicated craftsmen\, mad chefs\, and surprising allies. It took over two years\, but Rick’s Café opened in 2004 to rave reviews. Now\, as Captain Renault says to Major Strasser\, “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” Here is how she brought to life the screen legend that has captured the imagination of generations. \nCheck out the trailer: http://youtu.be/iQ4D0uKecfA
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kathy-kriger-reads-from-ricks-cafe/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20121112T180000
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SUMMARY:Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig read from Twentysomething\, Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be young today? \nIn the summer of 2010\, Robin Marantz Henig wrote a provocative article for the New York Times Magazine called “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” It generated enormous reader response and started a conversation that included both millennials and baby boomers. Now\, working with her millennial daughter Samantha\, she expands the project to give us a full portrait of what it means to be in your twenties today.\nLooking through many lenses\, the Henigs ask whether emerging adulthood has truly become a new rite of passage. They examine the latest neuroscience and psychological research\, the financial pressures young people face now\, changing cultural expectations\, the aftereffects of helicopter parenting\, and the changes that have arisen from social media and all things Internet. Most important\, they have surveyed more than 120 millennials and baby boomers to give voice to both viewpoints of a conversation that is usually one-sided.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/robin-marantz-henig-and-samantha-henig-read-from-twentysomething-why-do-young-adults-seem-stuck/
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SUMMARY:Jim Sterba reads from his new book Nature Wars
DESCRIPTION:This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals\, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history.  For nature lovers\, this should be wonderful news — unless\, perhaps\, you are one of more than 4\,000 drivers who will hit a deer today\, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings\, coyotes are killing your pets\, the neighbor’s cat has turned your bird feeder into a fast-food outlet\, wild turkeys have eaten your newly-planted seed corn\, beavers have flooded your driveway\, or bears are looting your garbage cans. \nNature Wars offers an eye-opening look at how  Americans lost touch with the natural landscape\, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television\, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets.  All the while our well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control\, causing damage costing billions\, degrading ecosystems\, and touching off disputes that polarized communities\, setting neighbor against neighbor. Deeply researched\, eloquently written\, counterintuitive and often humorous Nature Wars will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jim-sterba-reads-from-his-new-book-nature-wars/
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Stern reads from her debut novel
DESCRIPTION:“Town of Shadows is deeply moving\, darkly imaginative and delightfully weird.  It’s Thornton Wilder crossed with Tim Burton and David Lynch. Stern’s passion for language is infectious; she’s in love with words\, and by the end of this brilliant novella\, you’ll be in love too. A remarkable debut.” \n— Patricia Morrisroe\, author of Mapplethorpe: A Biography\, and Wide Awake: A Memoir of  Insomnia \n“Enter the Town of Shadows\, where noise is ‘the color of rain\,’ and the self is a ‘hidden crowd.’ Indeed like shadows\, the town’s inhabitants are elusive—slipping in and out of mirrors\, wandering down secret corridors of the mind\, hiding in the spines of houses—and perpetually at risk of disappearing or being ‘deleted.’ Lindsay Stern’s brilliant\, urgent vignettes depict a people struggling to make sense of the limits of language and time. A dark and fascinating debut.” \n— Hanna Andrews\, American Poet
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lindsay-stern-reads-from-her-debut-novel/
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