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SUMMARY:Patty Volk reads from her new book Shocked
DESCRIPTION:From the best-selling author of Stuffed\, comes a richly illustrated memoir\, written with charm and panache\, that juxtaposes two lives—an iconoclastic Italian fashion designer and the author’s mother—to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman. \nAudrey Morgen Volk\, an upper-middle-class New Yorker\, was a great beauty and lover of fashion\, and the polished hostess at her family’s garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli—”Schiap”—the high-fashion designer whose creations shocked the world\, broke every rule\, blurred the line between fashion and art\, and believed that in both fashion and life\, everything\, even a button\, has the potential to delight. Audrey’s daughter Patricia read Schiap’s autobiography\, Shocking Life\, at a tender age\, and was transformed by it. These two very different women—volatile\, opinionated\, and brilliant\, each in her own way—offered Patricia lessons about womanhood and personal style that would stay with her throughout her life. Moving seamlessly between the Volks’ Manhattan and Florida homes and Schiap’s astonishing life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dalí\, Duchamp\, Picasso)\, Shocked weaves Audrey’s notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli’s often outrageous creations into a dazzling meditation on beauty\, then and now\, and on being a daughter\, sister\, and mother. It is funny\, wise\, and utterly delightful.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/patty-volk-reads-from-her-new-book-shocked/
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SUMMARY:Meg Wolitzer reads from her new novel The Interestings
DESCRIPTION:From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling\, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent\, and the roles that art\, money\, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns\, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful\, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings\, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age\, as their talents\, fortunes\, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain\, in adulthood\, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson\, an aspiring comic actress\, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah\, a gifted musician\, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash\, Jules’s now-married best friends\, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams\, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper\, but also underscore the differences in their fates\, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. \nWide in scope\, ambitious\, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City\, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class\, art\, money\, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/358/
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SUMMARY:Kimberly McCreight reads from her debut novel Reconstructing Amelia
DESCRIPTION:Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope\, Brooklyn\, calls with disturbing information: her intelligent\, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter\, Amelia\, has been caught cheating. \nKate can’t believe that Amelia\, an ambitious\, levelheaded girl who loved school and has never been in trouble\, would risk college and her future with a suspension. But when Kate arrives at St. Grace’s she’s unprepared for far more devastating news. Amelia is dead. Seemingly unable to cope with what she’d done\, a despondent Amelia jumped from the school’s roof in an act of “spontaneous” suicide. \nAt least that’s the story St. Grace and the police tell Kate. Overwhelmed by her own guilt and shattered by grief\, it is the story Kate believes . . . until she gets the anonymous text. She didn’t jump. Now\, Kate is going to find the truth about her daughter\, no matter where it leads or what it takes. \nSifting through Amelia’s emails\, text messages\, social media postings\, and cell phone logs\, Kate will begin to reconstruct the pieces of Amelia’s life\, and the people in it\, to uncover why she was on St. Grace’s roof that day-and why she died. Told in alternating voices\, Reconstructing Amelia is a story of secrets and lies\, of love and betrayal\, of trusted friends and vicious enemies-of how much a parent really knows a child and how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she could not save.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kimberly-mccreight-reads-from-her-debut-novel-reconstructing-amelia/
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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig reads from her new book The Ashford Affair
DESCRIPTION:From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes a page-turning novel about two women in different eras\, and on different continents\, who are connected by one deeply buried secret. \nAs a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm\, just shy of making partner\, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything she’s been working towards—but now she’s not sure it’s enough. Her long hours have led to a broken engagement and\, suddenly single at thirty-four\, she feels her messy life crumbling around her. But when the family gathers for her grandmother Addie’s ninety-ninth birthday\, a relative lets slip hints about a long-buried family secret\, leading Clemmie on a journey into the past that could change everything. . . . \nGrowing up at Ashford Park in the early twentieth century\, Addie has never quite belonged. When her parents passed away\, she was taken into the grand English house by her aristocratic aunt and uncle\, and raised side-by-side with her beautiful and outgoing cousin\, Bea. Though they are as different as night and day\, Addie and Bea are closer than sisters\, through relationships and challenges\, and a war that changes the face of Europe irrevocably. But what happens when something finally comes along that can’t be shared? When the love of sisterhood is tested by a bond that’s even stronger? \nFrom the inner circles of British society to the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the red-dirt hills of Kenya\, the never-told secrets of a woman and a family unfurl.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-reads-from-her-new-book-the-ashford-affair/
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SUMMARY:Will Schutt reads from his debut collection of poetry Westerly
DESCRIPTION:A young soldier dons Napoleon’s hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin\, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous exile Dante finally returns to his native city to “hang his crown of laurels up.” Familial and historical apparitions haunt this dazzling collection of poems by Will Schutt\, the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets award. \nCoupled with Schutt’s own voice are the voices of some of Italy’s most prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets including Giacomo Leopardi\, Alda Merini\, Eugenio Montale\, and Edoardo Sanguineti. Subtle\, discerning\, restrained\, the poems in Westerly probe a vast emotional geography\, with its contingent pleasures and pains\, “where the door’s always dark\, the sky still blue.” \n                                …some narrow sickness buried you. \n                                Whatever boyhood I had \n                                fate hijacked too.  Old friend\, is this that \n                               world we stayed awake all night for? \n                                Truth dropped in.  Far off\, \n                                your cool hand points the way.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/will-schutt-reads-from-his-debut-collection-of-poetry-westerly/
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman celebrates the publication of 2 new books!
DESCRIPTION:From the beloved and acclaimed novelist\, a collection of witty\, moving essays In her two decades of writing\, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they’re old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world with us–her own–in essays that offer a candid\, charming take on modern life. Looking back and forging ahead\, she considers the subjects that matter most: childhood and condiments\, long marriage and solo living\, career and politics.\nHere you’ll find the lighthearted: a celebration of four decades of “All My Children\,” a reflection on being Jewish in heavily Irish-Catholic Lowell on St. Patrick’s Day\, a hilariously unflinching account of her tiptoe into online dating. But she also tackles the serious and profound in eloquent stories of unexpected widowhood and caring for elderly parents that use her struggles to illuminate ours. Whether for Lipman’s longtime readers or those who love the essays of Nora Ephron or Anna Quindlen\, “I Can’t Complain” is a diverting delight. \nTwo sisters recover from widowhood\, divorce\, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment\nUnexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband\, Edwin\, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot’s luxurious Village apartment. For Margot\, divorced amid scandal (hint: her husband was a fertility doctor) and then made Ponzi-poor\, it’s a chance to shake Gwen out of her grief and help make ends meet. To further this effort she enlists a third boarder\, the handsome\, cupcake-baking Anthony.\nAs the three swap money-making schemes and timid Gwen ventures back out into the dating world\, the arrival of Margot’s paroled ex in the efficiency apartment downstairs creates not just complications but the chance for all sorts of unexpected forgiveness. A sister story about love\, loneliness\, and new life in middle age\, this is a cracklingly witty\, deeply sweet novel from one of our finest comic writers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elinor-lipman-celebrates-the-publication-of-2-new-books/
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